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.

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