[1239] [And Jacob said:] "Whosoever thou shalt find thy gods, he shall not live; In the presence of our relatives, find out what I have, and take it for yourself. [But he didn't learn anything from him.] Jacob did not know that Rachel [his wife] had stolen them.

[1240] And Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and wept for his son many days.

[1241] And when the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph said to Pharaoh's courtiers, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, then say to Pharaoh thus: ...

[1242] And he commanded them, and said to them, "I am added to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite...

[1243] Behold, you have plotted evil against me; but God turned it into good, in order to do what it is now: to preserve the life of a great number of people;

[1244] He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold as a slave.

[1245] King Demetrius to Lasthenes the father to rejoice.

[1246] He sent Judas before him to Joseph to show him the way to Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen.

[1247] The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best place of the earth shalt thou dwell thy father and thy brethren; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know that there are able men among them, make them overseers of my cattle.

[1248] And the children of Israel went from Ramesses to Succoth, to the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children;

[1249] And [the children of Israel] departed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, at the end of the wilderness.

[1250] For the land into which you are going to possess it is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet like an olive garden.

[1251] We remember the fish, which in Egypt we ate for nothing, cucumbers and melons, and onions, and onions, and garlic;

[1252] But when Pharaoh had sent the people away, God did not lead them along the road of the land of the Philistines, because it was near; For God said, "Lest the people repent when they see the war, and return to Egypt."