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57 the household of his father, seventy in number, came out of Palestine, and when the aged patriarch stood in Pharaoh’s presence, and when the whole family settled down in the rich land of Goshen, the cause was as plain as noonday—Joseph had been above reproach, and the father was honored for his sake. One of the strongest impulses towards a spotless character and a blameless life should be, in every young person’s mind, the certainty that such a life will bring honor upon every one in the whole family. Jacob and his sons and all the family remained as a permanent part of the Egyptian population. More than that, they founded in their new home a separate people. Perhaps Joseph had a view to the necessity of keeping the family entirely apart from the Egyptians for all time to come when he told his brothers to tell to Pharaoh their real character—that they were shepherds. Now the Egyptians had once been conquered by a shepherd race, and they despised the 4