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52 shen. It is that part of the land which lies between the eastern mouth of the Nile and the frontier of Palestine, and extends between the Mediterranean coast and the neighborhood of the Red Sea. Judah was sent on in advance to inform Joseph of the coming of Jacob and the family. Joseph let no time elapse before he made ready his chariot, and started off to greet his long-absent father. No happier meeting between father and son ever took place. Jacob was so overjoyed that he forgot all about Pharaoh’s invitation, and wanted to die. The fact that Joseph was alive, and not that he was the Governor of all Egypt, was the occasion of his joy. There was something very peculiar in the plan which Joseph adopted of introducing the family to the King. He did not take his father first into the King’s presence, but five of his brethren. Pharaoh asked them what their occupation was, and when they told him that they were shepherds he assigned to them the