Genesis 50

VIN(i) 1 Joseph threw himself on his father. He cried over him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded the physicians, his servants, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 and compleated his forty days; [for this is the time allowed for embalming] the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 4 And when the days of weeping were ended, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favour in your eyes, speak unto Pharaoh and tell him, how that 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; you shall bury me there in the grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan. And now please let me go up and bury my father, and return. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear. 7 So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph. 8 and all the house of Joseph and his brothers, and the house of his father. Only, they left their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. 9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. And it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, 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 Kenaaniy who settle the land, see the mourning in the Threshingfloor of Thorns, they say, This is a heavy mourning to the Misrayim: so they call the name thereof Abel Misrayim - beyond Yarden. 12 Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them. 13 And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah; the field which Abraham bought for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. 15 And Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead. And they said, What if Joseph should bear a grudge against us and should surely repay us all the evil which we did to him? 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, 17 Thus shall you say to Joseph. Forgive them their iniquity and their sin for having done thee evil. Now therefore forgive the iniquity of the servants of the God of thy father. And while they were speaking to him, Joseph wept. 18 Then his brothers also came and immediately bowed down in front of him. "We are your slaves!" they said. 19 Joseph said to them, Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 20 Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive. 21 So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and spoke kindly to them. 22 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house; and lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph will see sons to Ephraim of the third generation; also the sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were brought forth upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 25 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here." 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.