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Chapter 50
- 50:1
- And
Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
- 50:2
- And
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and
the physicians embalmed Israel.
- 50:3
- And forty
days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those
which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and
ten days.
- 50:4
- And when
the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of
Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray
you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
- 50:5
- My father
made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for
me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let
me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
- 50:6
- And
Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee
swear.
- 50:7
- And
Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the
servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of
the land of Egypt,
- 50:8
- And all
the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only
their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the
land of Goshen.
- 50:9
- And there
went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great
company.
- 50:10
- And they
came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there
they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a
mourning for his father seven days.
- 50:11
- And when
the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the
floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the
Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is
beyond Jordan.
- 50:12
- And his
sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
- 50:13
- For his
sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave
of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a
possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
- 50:14
- And
Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up
with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
- 50:15
- And when
Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph
will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil
which we did unto him.
- 50:16
- And they
sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he
died, saying,
- 50:17
- So shall
ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy
brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray
thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father.
And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
- 50:18
- And his
brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said,
Behold, we be thy servants.
- 50:19
- And
Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
- 50:20
- But as
for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to
bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
- 50:21
- Now
therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And
he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
- 50:22
- And
Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten years.
- 50:23
- And
Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children
also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's
knees.
- 50:24
- And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you,
and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- 50:25
- And
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely
visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
- 50:26
- So Joseph
died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and
he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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