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Genesis 50 |
1 |
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,
and kissed him. |
2 |
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. |
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. |
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, |
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. |
6 |
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
made thee swear. |
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, |
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. |
9 |
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
was a very great company. |
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. |
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. |
12 |
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded
them: |
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. |
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. |
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. |
16 |
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying, |
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. |
18 |
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
they said, Behold, we be thy servants. |
19 |
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of
God? |
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. |
21 |
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto
them. |
22 |
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
26 |
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. |