Genesis Chapter 50

Genesis Chapter 50
1 Then 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 So forty days were accomplished (for
so long did the days of them that were
embalmed last) and the Egyptians
bewailed him seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning
were past, Joseph spake to the house of
Pharaoh, saying, If I have now found
favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in
the ears of Pharaoh, and say,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo,
I die, bury me in my grave, which I have
made me in the land of Canaan: now
therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury
my father, and I will come again.
6 Then Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy
father, as he made thee to swear. 7 So
Joseph went up to bury his father, and
with him went all the servants of
Pharaoh, both the elders of his house
and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8
Likewise all the house of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father’s house: only
their children, and their sheep, and their
cattle left they in the land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both
chariots and horsemen: and they were an
exceeding great company.
10 And they came to Goren Atad, which
is beyond Jordan, and there they made a
great and exceeding sore lamentation:
and he mourned for his father seven
days.
11 And when the Canaanites the
inhabitants of the land saw the mourning
in Goren Atad, they said, This is a great
mourning unto the Egyptians: wherefore
the name thereof was called Abelmizraim,
which is beyond Jordan. 12 So
his sons did unto him, according as he
had 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 cave Abraham bought
with the field, to be a place to bury in, of
Ephron the Hittite besides Mamre.
14 Then Joseph returned into Egypt, he
and his brethren, and all that went up
with him to bury his father, after that he
had buried his father. 15 And when
Joseph’s brethren saw that their father
was dead, they said, It may be that
Joseph will hate us, and will pay us
again all the evil, which we did unto
him.
16 Therefore they sent unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father commanded before his
death, saying,
17 Thus shall ye say unto Joseph,
Forgive now, I pray thee, the trespass of
thy brethren, and their sin: for they
rewarded thee evil. And now, we pray
thee, forgive the trespass of the servants
of thy father’s God. And Joseph wept,
when they spake unto him.
18 Also his brethren came unto him, and
fell down before his face, and said,
Behold, we be thy servants.
19 To whom Joseph said, Fear not: for
am not I under God?
20 When ye thought evil against me, God
disposed it to good, that he might bring
to pass, as it is this day, and save much
people alive.
21 Fear not now therefore, I will nourish
you, and your children: and he comforted
them, and spake kindly unto them.
22 So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his
father’s house: and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten year.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children,
even unto the third generation: also the
sons of Machir the son of Manasseh
were brought up on Joseph’s knees. 24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am
ready to die, and God will surely visit
you, and bring you out of this land, unto
the land which he swear unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the
children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry my
bones hence.
26 So Joseph died, when he was an
hundred and ten year old: and they
embalmed him and put him in a chest in
Egypt.