“Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the end of days” Genesis 49:1
“For your servant guaranteed for the lad, to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will have sinned to my father for all time’.” Genesis 44:32)
“When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognised them, but he acted like a stranger toward them” Genesis 42:7
“After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, ‘Lie with me’. But he refused” Genesis 39:7-8
“Take up the head-count of the entire community of the Children of Israel… according to the number of their names” Numbers 1:2
And if you shall say: ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year? Behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase’; then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year” Leviticus 25:20-21
“And you shall not desecrate My holy name, and I will be sanctified among the children of Israel, I am the Lord who sanctifies you” Leviticus 22:32
“And this shall be a law to you for all time: in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month you shall practise self-denial [ta’anu]; you shall do no manner of work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you” Leviticus 16:29
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