“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.” (Ge 50:1-26 AV)
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