H9001–/וַ–v

His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."

וַיְמָאֵ֣ן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

וַיְבָ֨רֲכֵ֜ם (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְהָיָ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵשִׁ֣יב (וְ) ve. “and”

Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

וַיִּקְרָ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bows his shoulder to the burden, And becomes a servant doing forced labor.

וַיַּ֤רְא (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֤ט (וַ) va “and”וַיְהִ֖י (וַ) va “and”

Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.

וַיִּפֹּ֥ל (וַ) va “and”

The archers have sorely grieved him, Shot at him, and persecute him:

וַֽיְמָרֲרֻ֖הוּ (וַֽ) va “and”וָרֹ֑בּוּ (וָ) va. “and”וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֻ֖הוּ (וַֽ) va “and”

But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

וַתֵּ֤שֶׁב (וַ) va. “and”וַיָּפֹ֖זּוּ (וַ) va “and”

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ (וַ) va “and”

He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

וַיְצַ֣ו (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

וַיְכַ֤ל (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”וַיִּגְוַ֖ע (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּאָ֥סֶף (וַ) va “and”

Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

וַיִּפֹּ֥ל (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשַּׁק־ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

וַיְצַ֨ו (וַ) va “and”וַיַּחַנְט֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

וַיִּמְלְאוּ־ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

וַיַּֽעַבְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר (וַ) va “and”

Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽעֲל֨וּ (וַ) va “and”

There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

וַיַּ֣עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיְהִ֥י (וַ) va “and”

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֨סְפְּדוּ־ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֧עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

וַיַּ֡רְא (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

וַיִּשְׂא֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְבְּר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

וַיָּ֨שָׁב (וַ) va “and”

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.

וַיִּרְא֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

וַיְצַוּ֕וּ (וַ) va “and”