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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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Genesis 50

Genesis 50