Gen 50
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And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept on him, and kissed him.
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And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers
embalmed Israel.
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And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered;
and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
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And when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharao, saying,
If I have found favour in your sight, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharao, saying,
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My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land
of Chanaan, there you shall bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and
return again.
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And Pharao said to Joseph, Go up, bury your father, as he constrained you to swear.
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So Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharao went up with
him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
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And all the household of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of his father,
and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Gesem.
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And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great
company.
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And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed
him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father
seven days.
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And the inhabitants of the land of Chanaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad,
and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name,
The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.
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And thus his sons did to him.
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So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double
cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite,
before Mambre.
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And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with
him to bury his father.
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And when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, Let us
take heed, lest at any time Joseph remember evil against us, and recompense to us
all the evils which we have done against him.
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And they came to Joseph, and said, Your father adjured us before his death, saying,
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Thus say you to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, seeing that as
they have done you evil; and now Gr. accept pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept
while
they spoke to him.
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And they came to him and said, We, these persons, are your servants.
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And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God’s.
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You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the
matter might be as it is to-day, and much people might be fed.
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And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted
them, and spoke kindly to them.
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father;
and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
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And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir
the son of Manasse were borne on the Gr. thighs sides of Joseph.
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And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and
will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God swore to our fathers,
Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.
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And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall
visit you, then you shall carry up my bones hence with you.
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And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and Gr. buried him they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.