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Burial of Jacob

Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him, and kissed him.

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Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

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Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacoba was embalmed.

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Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned[a] for him seventy days.

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The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.

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Now when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,

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When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.

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‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’ ”

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Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

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

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Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.

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So 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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So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.

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as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

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Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds 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 gathering.

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A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.

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Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

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When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.

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And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called [b]Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

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The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim,b for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”

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So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.

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So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them.

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For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.

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They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.

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Joseph Reassures His Brothers

After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial.

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Joseph Reassures His Brothers

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may [c]actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.”

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But now that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers became fearful. “Now Joseph will show his anger and pay us back for all the wrong we did to him,” they said.

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So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying,

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So they sent this message to Joseph: “Before your father died, he instructed us

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‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

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to say to you: ‘Please forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did to you — for their sin in treating you so cruelly.’ So we, the servants of the God of your father, beg you to forgive our sin.” When Joseph received the message, he broke down and wept.

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Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

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Then his brothers came and threw themselves down before Joseph. “Look, we are your slaves!” they said.

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Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

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But Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you?

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But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.

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Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and spoke [d]kindly to them.

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No, don’t be afraid. I will continue to take care of you and your children.” So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them.

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Death of Joseph

So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s household. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

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The Death of Joseph

So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt. Joseph lived to the age of 110.

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Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph’s knees.

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He lived to see three generations of descendants of his son Ephraim, and he lived to see the birth of the children of Manasseh’s son Makir, whom he claimed as his own.c

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And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely [e]visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

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Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.”

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So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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So Joseph died at the age of 110. The Egyptians embalmed him, and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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Genesis 50

Genesis 50