Genesis 50 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Burial Preparations and Mourning for Jacob

Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him [tenderly].

Gen 50:2Then Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm (mummify) his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel (Jacob).

Gen 50:3

Gen 50:3Now forty days were required for this, for that is the customary number of days [of preparation] required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept and grieved for him [in public mourning as they would for royalty] for seventy days.

Gen 50:4

When the days of weeping and public mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to [the nobles of] the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,

Gen 50:5

Gen 50:5‘My father made me swear [an oath], saying, “Hear me, I am about to die; bury me in my tomb which I prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.” So now let me go up [to Canaan], please, and bury my father; then I will return.’”

Gen 50:6

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

Gen 50:7

So Joseph went up [to Canaan] to bury his father, and with him went all the officials of Pharaoh, [the nobles of his court and] the elders of his household and all [the nobles and] the elders of the land of Egypt—

Gen 50:8

Gen 50:8and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household. They left only their little ones and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

Gen 50:9

Gen 50:9Both chariots and horsemen also went up [to Canaan] with Joseph; and it was a very great company.

Gen 50:10

Gen 50:10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a great lamentation (expressions of mourning for the deceased) and [extreme demonstrations of] sorrow [according to Egyptian custom]; and Joseph observed a seven-day mourning for his father.

Gen 50:11

Gen 50:11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim (mourning of Egypt); it is west of the Jordan.

Burial at Machpelah

Gen 50:12

Gen 50:12So Jacob’s sons did for him as he had commanded them;

Gen 50:13

Gen 50:13for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

Gen 50:14

Gen 50:14After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him.

Gen 50:15

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph carries a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him?”

Gen 50:16

Gen 50:16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded us before he died, saying,

Gen 50:17

Gen 50:17‘You are to say to Joseph, “I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.”’ Now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Gen 50:18

Gen 50:18Then his brothers went and fell down before him [in confession]; then they said, “Behold, we are your servants (slaves).”

Gen 50:19

Gen 50:19But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? [Vengeance is His, not mine.]

Gen 50:20

Gen 50:20“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present outcome, that many people would be kept alive [as they are this day].

Gen 50:21

Gen 50:21“So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and support you and your little ones.” So he comforted them [giving them encouragement and hope] and spoke [with kindness] to their hearts.

Death of Joseph

(Heb 11:22 )

Gen 50:22

Now Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

Gen 50:23

Gen 50:23Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children; also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born and raised on Joseph’s knees.

Gen 50:24

Gen 50:24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob [to give you].”

Gen 50:25

Gen 50:25Then Joseph made the sons of Israel (Jacob) swear [an oath], saying, “God will surely visit you and take care of you [returning you to Canaan], and [when that happens] you shall carry my bones up from here.”

Gen 50:26

Gen 50:26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him and he was put [fn]in a coffin in Egypt.

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AMP Footnotes

(50:26)

Joseph’s body remained in Egypt until the exodus to the promised land of Canaan about two hundred years later. Its final resting-place was Shechem, near Samaria, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem (Josh 24:32). Here each of his brothers was also buried (Acts 7:15, 16).

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