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The Book of Genesis
Genesis 50
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- And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon
him, and kissed him.
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- And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to
embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according
as he made thee swear.
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen:
and it was a very great company.
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- 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.
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- And his sons did unto him according as he commanded
them:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy
father did command before he died, saying,
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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