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Genesis 50 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:2 - And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulchre which I dug for myself in the land of Chanaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - And Pharao said to Joseph, Go up, bury thy father, as he constrained thee to swear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:12 - And thus his sons did to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - And they came to Joseph, and said, Thy father adjured us before his death, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - Thus say ye to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done thee evil; and now [fn]pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:18 - And they came to him and said, We, these persons, are thy servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God's.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:20 - Ye 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were borne on the [fn]sides of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - 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 sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and [fn]they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
BES Footnotes
Gr. accept.
Gr. thighs.
Gr. buried him.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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