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Chapter 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. |