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Chapter 50
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And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon
him, and kissed him. |
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. |
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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians
mourned for him threescore and ten days. |
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And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake
unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found
grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh,
saying, |
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My 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 up, I pray
thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. |
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And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according
as he made thee swear. |
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And 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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And 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. |
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen:
and it was a very great company. |
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And they came to the threshingfloor 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. |
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And 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 Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan. |
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And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: |
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For 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 buryingplace
of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. |
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And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren,
and all that went up with him to bury his father, after
he had buried his father. |
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And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was
dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto
him. |
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And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father
did command before he died, saying, |
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So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now,
the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did
unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass
of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept
when they spake unto him. |
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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face;
and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. |
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And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the
place of God? |
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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant
it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save
much people alive. |
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Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto
them. |
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house:
and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. |
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And 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. |
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And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will
surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the
land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. |
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And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,
God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones
from hence. |
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So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and
they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. |
