| 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. |
| 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. |
