²⁰ And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

¹⁴ Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

⁵ Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.

¹² Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

³⁵ (And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.

¹⁶ Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

¹⁷ Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

¹⁸ So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.

¹³ As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

¹⁵ Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

¹⁷ Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

⁵ Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.

³ Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

² And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.