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13 Jacob's Journey into Egypt.

The sons of Jacob Pharoah did command,

To take both food and waggons from the land

Of Egypt, to fetch their father straight,

They did, and poor old Jacob's joy was great ;

He said, still as his spirits did revive,

It is enough, Joseph is yet alive,

The son for whom I mourned, therefore I

Will go and see him now before I die.

Then on his journey still he doth proceed,

And in the land of Goshen, there indeed

Joseph did meet him, whom he straight did bring

Into the royal pressnce of the king.

When Jacob before king Pharoah stood

His age one hundred and thirty years, a good

Old man was he ; Pharoah gave to his race,

The land of Goshen for a dwelling place.