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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. |
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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. |
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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, |
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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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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, |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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, |
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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. |
| 18 | And his
brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be
thy servants. |
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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. |
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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. |
