CHAPTER 8
1 And when Simeon had made an end of commanding his sons, he slept with his fathers, being an hundred and twenty years old.
2 And they laid him in a wooden coffin, to take up his bones to Hebron. And they took them up secretly during a war of the Egyptians.
3 For the bones of Joseph the Egyptians guarded in the tombs of the Kings.
4 For the sorcerers told them, that on the departure of the bones of Joseph there should be throughout all the land ᵃdarkness and gloom, and an exceeding great plague to the Egyptians, so that even with a lamp a man should not recognise his brother.