Genesis 50 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

The Death of Israel

Gen 50:1And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

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

Gen 50:3And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Gen 50:4

Gen 50:4And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Gen 50:5

Gen 50:5My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Gen 50:6

Gen 50:6And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

Gen 50:7

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

Gen 50:8

Gen 50:8And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

Gen 50:9

Gen 50:9And there went with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

Gen 50:10

Gen 50:10And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Gen 50:11

Gen 50:11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Burial at Machpelah

Gen 50:12

Gen 50:12And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:

Gen 50:13

Gen 50:13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Gen 50:14

Gen 50:14And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Gen 50:15

Gen 50:15And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him.

Gen 50:16

Gen 50:16And they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying,

Gen 50:17

Gen 50:17So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Gen 50:18

Gen 50:18And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.

Gen 50:19

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

Gen 50:20

Gen 50:20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Gen 50:21

Gen 50:21Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Death of Joseph

(Heb 11:22 )

Gen 50:22

Gen 50:22And 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 Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

Gen 50:24

Gen 50:24And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Gen 50:25

Gen 50:25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

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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