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And Joseph
fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,
and kissed him.
02 And Joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father: and the
physicians embalmed Israel.
03 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.
04 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,
05 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.
06 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy
father, according as he made thee swear.
07 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,
08 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.
09 And there went up with him both chariots
and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
10 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.
11 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.
12 And his sons did unto him according as
he commanded them:
13 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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14 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.
15 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.
16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father did command before he died,
saying,
17 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.
18 And his brethren also went and fell down
before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy
servants.
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for
am I in the place of God?
20 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.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will
nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his
father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and
ten years.
23 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.
24 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.
25 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.
26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten
years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put
in a coffin in Egypt.
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