Genesis 50 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Death of Israel

Gen 50:1Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

Gen 50:2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

Gen 50:3forty days were required for it, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Gen 50:4

Gen 50:4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Gen 50:5

Gen 50:5My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father; then I will return."

Gen 50:6

Gen 50:6And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."

Gen 50:7

Gen 50:7So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Gen 50:8

Gen 50:8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

Gen 50:9

Gen 50:9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; 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 lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Gen 50:11

Gen 50:11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named A'bel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.

Burial at Machpelah

Gen 50:12

Gen 50:12Thus his 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 at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burying place.

Gen 50:14

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

Gen 50:15

Gen 50:15When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him."

Gen 50:16

Gen 50:16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,

Gen 50:17

Gen 50:17'Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, we pray you, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Gen 50:18

Gen 50:18His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, "Behold, we are your servants."

Gen 50:19

Gen 50:19But Joseph said to them, "Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

Gen 50:20

Gen 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Gen 50:21

Gen 50:21So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he reassured them and comforted them.

Death of Joseph

(Heb 11:22 )

Gen 50:22

Gen 50:22So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

Gen 50:23

Gen 50:23And Joseph saw E'phraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manas'seh were born upon Joseph's knees.

Gen 50:24

Gen 50:24And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Gen 50:25

Gen 50:25Then Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, "God will visit you, and you shall carry up my bones 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 in a coffin in Egypt.

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