Genesis 50

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1. 1Joseph threw himself on his father's face, cried over him, and kissed him.
2. 2Joseph ordered the physicians who served him to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3. 3This took forty days, which was the full time required for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4. 4After the period of mourning had ended, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household, saying, "If I have found grace in your eyes, please bring this request before Pharaoh:
5. 5"My father made me swear an oath, saying, 'I am about to die. Bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.' So please let me go up and bury my father, and then I will return."
6. 6Pharaoh replied, "Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do."
7. 7So Joseph traveled up to bury his father. All of Pharaoh's officials, the senior members of his household, and all the elders of Egypt went with him,
8. 8along with Joseph's entire household, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their young children, their flocks, and their herds remained behind in the land of Goshen.
9. 9Chariots and horsemen also accompanied him, making it an extremely large procession.
10. 10When they arrived at the threshingfloor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they grieved there with intense and bitter weeping. Joseph observed a seven-day mourning period for his father.
11. 11When the Canaanites living in that region saw the mourning at the threshingfloor of Atad, they said, "This is a deeply sorrowful occasion for the Egyptians." That is why the place was named Abelmizraim, which is on the other side of the Jordan.
12. 12Jacob's sons did exactly what their father had instructed them to do.
13. 13They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
14. 14After burying his father, Joseph went back to Egypt, together with his brothers and everyone who had gone up with him for the burial.
15. 15Now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became afraid. They said, "What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrong we did to him?"
16. 16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Before your father died, he gave this instruction:
17. 17So you shall say to Joseph, "Please forgive now the trespass of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you." And now, we ask you to forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18. 18Then his brothers came in person and bowed down before him. They said, "We are your servants."
19. 19But Joseph told them, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
20. 20"You planned to harm me, but God intended it for good, so that what is happening today would come about — the survival of many people.
21. 21"So do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." He reassured them and spoke to them with kindness.
22. 22Joseph remained in Egypt, along with his father's household. He lived a hundred and ten years.
23. 23Joseph saw Ephraim's descendants to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph's knees.
24. 24Joseph told his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land he promised with an oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
25. 25Then Joseph made the children of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you must carry my bones up from this place."
26. 26Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.