27 When they went on speaking to him all of Joseph’s words that he had spoken to them and he got to see the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father began to revive.+
12 Further, they gave him a slice of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins.+ Then he ate and his spirit+ returned to him; for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.