sin. Nevertheless my father spake words of comfort to me,
and prayed to God in my behalf, that the wrath of the Lord
might depart from me, as He showed me."

Reuben admonished his children impressively to join
themselves to Levi, "because he will know the law of the
Lord," he said, "and he will give ordinances for judgment,
and bring sacrifices for all Israel, until the consummation of
the times, as the anointed high priest of whom the Lord
spake."

After announcing his last will to his sons, Reuben departed
this life at the age of one hundred and twenty-five
years. His body was laid in a coffin until his sons bore it
away from Egypt, and carried it up to Hebron, where they