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Genesis 50 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Burial of Jacob

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:2 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - Now when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - So 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,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - as well as 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:9 - And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim,[fn] which is beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:12 - So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
Joseph Reassures His Brothers

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:15 - When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:18 - Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:20 - “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - “Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Death of Joseph
(Heb. 11:22 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 - So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph’s knees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally Mourning of Egypt
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Genesis Chapter 50 — Additional Translations:

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