GE-50:1  And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon

him,

 and kissed him.

GE-50:2  And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to

embalm

his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

GE-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.

GE-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,

GE-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.

GE-50:6  And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according

as he

made thee swear.

GE-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,

GE-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.

GE-50:9  And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen:

and it

was a very great company.

GE-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.

GE-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.

GE-50:12  And his sons did unto him according as he commanded

them:

GE-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.

GE-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.

GE-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.

GE-50:16  And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy

father

did command before he died, saying,

GE-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.

GE-50:18  And his brethren also went and fell down before his

face;

and they said, Behold, we [be] thy servants.

GE-50:19  And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the

place

of God?

GE-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.

GE-50:21  Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your

little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

GE-50:22  And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house:

and

Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

GE-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.

GE-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.

GE-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.

GE-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.



~~~~~~