Genesis 50 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Death of Israel

Gen 50:1And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

Gen 50:2And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

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Gen 50:3And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

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Gen 50:4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

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Gen 50:5My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

Gen 50:6

Gen 50:6And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

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Gen 50:7So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

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Gen 50:8And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

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Gen 50:9And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.

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Gen 50:10And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

Gen 50:11

Gen 50:11And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

Burial at Machpelah

Gen 50:12

Gen 50:12So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

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Gen 50:13For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

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Gen 50:14And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

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Gen 50:15Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

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Gen 50:16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

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Gen 50:17You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

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Gen 50:18Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

Gen 50:19

Gen 50:19And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?

Gen 50:20

Gen 50:20As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

Gen 50:21

Gen 50:21So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

Death of Joseph

(Heb 11:22 )

Gen 50:22

Gen 50:22Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

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Gen 50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.

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Gen 50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

Gen 50:25

Gen 50:25Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

Gen 50:26

Gen 50:26So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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