Genesis 50

Then Joseph fell on the face of his father, and he wept over him and kissed him.

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

and they completed forty days for him, for so they complete the days of embalmings. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. \*

And the days of his mourning passed, then Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. In my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you must bury me.” So now, please let me go up {there} and bury my father, then I will return.’”

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

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 elders of the land of Egypt

and all of the house of Joseph and his brothers and the house of his father. Only their little ones and their flock{s} and their herd{s} they left in the land of Goshen.

And with him went up both chariot{s} and horsemen, and the company was very great. \*

Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which {is} beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there {with} a very great and heavy lamentation. And he did seven days {of} mourning for his father.

And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and they said, “This {is} a heavy mourning for the Egyptians!” For that {reason} they called its name Abel Mizraim, which {is} beyond the Jordan. \*

And his sons did for him just as he had commanded them:

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

Then after he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. \*

And the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, and they said, “What if Joseph hates us? Then he will surely repay us {for} all the evil that we did to him!”

Then they ordered {a messenger to go} to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,

‘This you must say to Joseph: “I beg {you}, please forgive the crime of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ So now, please forgive the crime of the servants of your father’s God.” And Joseph cried when they spoke to him. \*

Then his brothers also came and fell before him and said, “Behold us, {we belong} to you as slaves!”

But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid. For {am} I in place of God?

And {as for} you, you intended evil against me, {but} God intended it for good in order to do as {he is doing} this day, to save many people.

So now, do not be afraid. I will support you and your little ones.” So he comforted them, and he spoke to their heart{s}. \*

Then Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived 110 years.

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s sons {to} the third {generation}. Also, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph. \*

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, and God will surely visit you and take you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear {an oath}, saying, “Surely God will visit you, and you must take my bones up from this {place}.”

Then Joseph died, a son of 110 years. Then they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.