| 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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