children, and their children's children forever, would dwell in the land that God had given Jacob, where their fathers had dwelt, and David would be their prince forever. God would make an everlasting covenant of peace with them, multiply them, and set God's sanctuary in the midst of them forever. God's dwelling-place would be over them, God would be their God, and they would be God's people. And the nations would know that God sanctified Israel, when God's sanctuary would be in their midst forever. Connection to the Parashah The parashah and the haftarah both tell stories of the reconciliation of Jacob's progeny. The parashah and the haftarah both tell of the relationship of Judah and Joseph, in the parashah as individuals, and in the haftarah as representatives for the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel. Notes Further reading The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these sources: Ancient Inscription of Ameni. Egypt. 20th century BCE. (response to famine). Early nonrabbinic Ezekiel the Tragedian. Exagōgē. 2nd century BCE. Translated by R.G. Robertson. In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Volume 2: Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic works. Edited by James H. Charlesworth, page 808. New York: Anchor Bible, 1985. Philo. Allegorical Interpretation 3.62.177; On the Sacrifices of Cain and Abel 11.48; 12.51; On the Posterity of Cain 9.29; On Agriculture 13.57; On the Confusion of Tongues 17.80; On the Migration of Abraham 5.21–22; 36.199; 37.203–04; Who Is the Heir? 51.251; On the Change of Names 31.171; 32.173–74; On Dreams 1.17.172; On Joseph 38–43. Alexandria, Egypt, early 1st century CE. In, e.g., The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition. Translated by Charles Duke Yonge, pages 70, 100, 134, 179, 241, 255, 272–73, 298, 355–56, 380, 435–58. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993. Josephus. Antiquities, 2.6.9–2.7.7. Circa 93–94. In, e.g., The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition. Translated by William Whiston, pages 63–65. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1987. Qur'an 12:80–101. Arabia, 7th century. Classical rabbinic Tosefta Berakhot 4:18; Sotah 10:9. Land of Israel, circa 300 CE. In, e.g., The Tosefta: Translated from the Hebrew, with a New Introduction. Translated by Jacob Neusner, pages 27, 877. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002. Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael Beshallah 1–2. Land of Israel, late 4th century. In, e.g., Mekhilta According to Rabbi Ishmael. Translated by Jacob