H9001–/וַ–v

"So you shall tell Joseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ (וַ) va “and”

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

וַיֵּלְכוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

וַיְנַחֵ֣ם (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר (וַ) va “and”

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיְחִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.

וַיַּ֤רְא (וַ) va “and”

Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְהֶעֱלָ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

וַיַּשְׁבַּ֣ע (וַ) va “and”וְהַעֲלִתֶ֥ם (וְ) ve. “and”

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

וַיָּ֣מָת (וַ) va “and”וַיַּחַנְט֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֥ישֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

וַֽיְהִ֗י (וַֽ) va “and”

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

וַיָּ֤מָת (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

וַֽיִּשְׁרְצ֛וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּרְבּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽעַצְמ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.

וַיָּ֥קָם (וַ) va “and”

He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."

וְהָיָ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְנוֹסַ֤ף (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִלְחַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָלָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֜בֶן (וַ) va “and”

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

וַיָּקֻ֕צוּ (וַ) va “and”

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּ (וַ) va “and”

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

וַיְמָרְר֨וּ (וַ) va “and”

The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וּרְאִיתֶ֖ן (וּ) u. “and”וַהֲמִתֶּ֣ן (וַ) va. “and”וָחָֽיָה׃ (וָ) va. “and”

But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

וַתִּירֶ֤אןָ (וַ) va. “and”וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ (וַ) va. “and”

The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"

וַיִּקְרָ֤א (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ (וַ) va. “and”

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

וַתֹּאמַ֤רְןָ (וַ) va. “and”וְיָלָֽדוּ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

וַיֵּ֥יטֶב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֧רֶב (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽעַצְמ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”