And when they of the country saw this plaint and sorrowing they said:  This is a great sorrow to the Egyptians.  And that same place is named yet the bewailing of Egypt.  The children of Israel did as they were commanded, and bare him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the double spelunke which Abraham had bought.  Then when Jacob the father was buried, Joseph with all his fellowship returned into Egypt.  Then his brethren after the death of their father spake together privily, and dreading that Joseph would avenge the wrong and evil that they had done to him, came to him and said:  Thy father commanded us ere he died that we should say thus to thee:  We pray thee that thou wilt forget, and not remember the sin and trespass of thy brethren, ne the malice that they executed in thee.  We beseech thee that thou wilt forgive to thy father, servant of God, this wickedness.  Which when Joseph heard he wept bitterly, and his brethren came to him kneeling low to the ground and worshipped him, and said, We be thy servants.  To whom he answered:  Be ye nothing afeard ne dread you not, ween ye that ye may resist God’s will?  Ye thought to have done to me evil, but God hath turned it into good, and hath exalted me as ye see and know, that he should save much people.  Be ye nothing afeard, I shall feed you and your children.  And comforted them with fair words, and spake friendly and joyously to them.  And he abode and dwelled still in Egypt with all the house of his father, and lived an hundred and ten years, and saw the sons of Ephraim in to the third generation.  After these things he said to his brethren:  After my death, God shall visit you and shall do you depart from this land unto the land that he promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  When that time shall come, take my bones and lead them with you from this place, and then died.  Whose body was embalmed with sweet spices and aromatics and laid in a chest in Egypt.

HERE NEXT FOLLOWETH THE HISTORY OF MOSES

Which is read in-the Church on Mid-lent Sunday

These be the names of the children of Israel that entered into Egypt with Jacob, and each entered with their household and meiny.  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher; they were all in number that entered seventy.  Joseph was tofore in Egypt.  And when he was dead and all his brethren and kindred, the children of Israel grew and multiplied greatly, and filled the earth.  Then was there a new king upon Egypt which knew nothing of Joseph, and said to his people:  Lo! and see the people of Israel is great, and stronger than we be, come and let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply and give us battle and fight with us and drive us out of our land.  Then he ordained provosts and masters over them to set them awork and put them to affliction of burdens.  They builded to Pharaoh two towns, Pithom and Raamses.