50
1 Joseph
fell on
his father’s face,
wept on him,
and kissed him.
2 Joseph
commanded his
servants, the
physicians, to
embalm his father;
and the physicians
embalmed Israel.
3 Forty days
were used for him,
for that is
how many days
it takes to embalm.
The Egyptians wept
for Israel for
seventy days.
4 When
the days of weeping
for him were
past, Joseph spoke
to Pharaoh’s staff,
saying, “If now I
have found favor
in your eyes,
please speak in
the ears of
Pharaoh, saying,
5 ‘My father
made me swear,
saying, “Behold, I am
dying. Bury me
in my grave
which I have
dug for myself in
the land of
Canaan.” Now
therefore, please
let me go
up and bury
my father, and I
will come again.’ ”
6 Pharaoh said,
“Go up, and
bury your father, just
like he made
you swear.”
7 Joseph
went up to
bury his father;
and with him
went up all
the servants of
Pharaoh, the
elders of his
house, all the
elders of the land
of Egypt,
8 all
the house of
Joseph, his brothers,
and his father’s
house. Only their
little ones, their
flocks, and their
herds, they left
in the land of
Goshen.
9 Both
chariots and
horsemen went up
with him. It
was a very
great company.
10 They came
to the threshing
floor of Atad,
which is beyond
the Jordan, and
there they
lamented with a
very great and
severe lamentation.
He mourned for
his father seven
days.
11 When
the inhabitants of
the land, the
Canaanites, saw
the mourning in
the floor of Atad,
they said, “This
is a
grievous mourning by
the Egyptians.”
Therefore its name
was called Abel Mizraim,
which is beyond
the Jordan.
12 His
sons did to
him just 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, as
a possession for a
burial site, from
Ephron the Hittite,
near Mamre.
14 Joseph
returned into
Egypt—he, and
his brothers, and
all that went
up with him
to bury his father,
after he had
buried his father.
15 When
Joseph’s brothers saw
that their father
was dead,
they said, “It may
be that Joseph
will hate us,
and will fully pay
us back for
all the evil
which we did
to him.”
16 They
sent a message to
Joseph, saying, “Your father
commanded before
he died, saying,
17 ‘You
shall tell Joseph,
“Now please
forgive the disobedience
of your brothers,
and their sin,
because they did
evil to you.” ’
Now, please
forgive the disobedience
of the servants
of the God of
your father.” Joseph
wept when they
spoke to him.
18 His brothers
also went and
fell down before
his face; and
they said, “Behold,
we are your
servants.”
19 Joseph said
to them, “Don’t be
afraid, for am I
in the place
of God?
20 As
for you, you
meant evil against
me, but God meant
it for good,
to save many
people alive, as
is happening today.
21 Now
therefore don’t be
afraid. I will
provide for you
and your little
ones.” He
comforted them,
and spoke kindly
to them.
22 Joseph
lived in Egypt,
he, and
his father’s house.
Joseph lived one
hundred ten years.
23 Joseph
saw Ephraim’s children
to the third
generation. The
children also of
Machir, the son
of Manasseh, were
born on Joseph’s
knees.
24 Joseph said
to his brothers, “I
am dying, but God
will surely visit
you, and bring
you up out
of this land to
the land which he
swore to Abraham,
to Isaac, and
to Jacob.”
25 Joseph
took an oath
from the children
of Israel, saying, “God
will surely visit
you, and you
shall carry up
my bones from
here.”
26 So
Joseph died, being
one hundred ten
years old, and
they embalmed him,
and he was
put in a coffin
in Egypt.