to jacob there iS this heap and here is this pillar
                and tO his father's household I will go up and tell pharaoh
                    iNdeed he shall be blessed
                    aNd
                   thE men who went with me
 then they made the pResent ready for joseph
          our father Is old
                crossEd over penuel
         the among hiS

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Note: can be followed by Satie's song Je te veux"

Text Authorship:

• by Bible or other Sacred Texts , First Book of Moses (Genesis). [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by John Milton Cage (1912 - 1992), "to jacob there iS this heap and here is this pillar", 1985, from Sonnekus², no. 3. [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

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