Bible, King James Version
Genesis
Gen.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 Abel-mizraim, 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 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.
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