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The Book of Jubilees, also known as 'Little Genesis' or 'Kufale', is a pseudepigraphal text of the Old Testament that rewrites the history of Genesis and part of Exodus, with emphasis on the division of time into jubilees and weeks of years. It is canonical only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and preserved entirely in Ge'ez. The book was originally written in Hebrew around the 2nd century BC and is cited by the Early Church Fathers.

Jubilees

Chapter 46

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And it came to pass after Jacob died that the children of Israel multiplied in the land of Egypt, and they became a great nation, and they were as one, agreeing in heart, so that brother loved brother and each man helped his brother, and they grew abundantly and multiplied exceedingly for ten weeks of years, all the days of Joseph's life.

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And there was no Satan nor any evil all the days of Joseph's life which he lived after his father Jacob, because all the Egyptians honored the children of Israel all the days of Joseph's life.

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And Joseph died at one hundred and ten years of age; seventeen years he lived in the land of Canaan, and ten years he was a servant, and three years in prison, and eighty years he was under the king, ruling all the land of Egypt.

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And he died and all his brothers and all that generation.

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And he commanded the children of Israel before he died that they should take his bones with them when they went out of the land of Egypt.

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And he made them swear concerning his bones, because he knew that the Egyptians would not return him and bury him in the land of Canaan, because Macamaron, king of Canaan, while dwelling in the land of Assyria, fought in the valley against the King of Egypt and killed him there, and pursued the Egyptians to the gates of Hermon.

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But he was not able to enter because another, a new king, had become king of Egypt, and he was stronger than he, and he returned to the land of Canaan, and the gates of Egypt were closed, and no one entered or went out of Egypt.

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And Joseph died in the forty-sixth jubilee, in the sixth week, in the second year, and they buried him in the land of Egypt, and all his brothers died after him.

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And the king of Egypt went out to war against the king of Canaan in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week, in the second year, and the children of Israel took all the bones of the sons of Jacob except Joseph's bones, and they buried them in the field of the double cave in the mountain.

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And the majority returned to Egypt, but some of them remained in the mountains of Hebron, and Amram their father remained with them.

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And the king of Canaan was victorious over the king of Egypt, and he closed the gates of Egypt.

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And he devised an evil plan against the children of Israel to afflict them, and he said to the people of Egypt:

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"Behold, the people of the children of Israel have grown and multiplied more than we. Let us deal wisely with them before they become too numerous, and afflict them with slavery before war falls upon us and before they also fight against us; so that they may not join our enemies and depart with them from our land, because their hearts and faces are turned toward Canaan."

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And he sent taskmasters over them to afflict them with slavery; and they built fortified cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses, and they built all the walls and fortifications in the cities of Egypt that had been reconquered.

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And they made them serve with rigor, and the more they treated them with evil, the more they grew and multiplied.

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And the people of Egypt abominated the children of Israel.

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