Genesis - 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 - .