Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
Yaakov lives seventeen years in Egypt. As death nears he makes Yosef swear to bury him with his fathers in Canaan, and he blesses Yosef's sons, Ephraim and Menashe, crossing his hands to put the younger first. He gathers all his sons and speaks to each in turn, calling Yehudah a lion's cub from whom the scepter will not depart, and then he dies. Yosef and his brothers, with a great escort from Egypt, carry him to the cave of Machpelah. Afterwards the brothers fear that Yosef will now take revenge, and he tells them: you meant it for evil, G‑d meant it for good. Yosef lives to see his great-grandchildren, makes his brothers swear to carry his bones up when G‑d remembers them, and dies at a hundred and ten; he is embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.