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To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

That ye shall say, Thy servants" trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father"s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father"s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob"s sons" wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.