Genesis 50Book 1 of 66 · 26 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
  2. Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
  3. The embalming process required forty days for him, for such is the period required for those who are embalmed, and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
  4. When the period of mourning was past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh on my behalf, saying,
  5. My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my tomb which I prepared 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 return.
  6. And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you promise."
  7. So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the officials of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
  8. Along with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household, only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.
  9. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very impressive gathering.
  10. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous mourning, and Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father.
  11. When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians," therefore the place was named Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
  12. So his sons did for him just as he had charged them.
  13. 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 had bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site.
  14. And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
  15. When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "Perhaps Joseph will hate us and may actually pay us back for all the evil which we did to him."
  16. So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Before your father died he commanded, saying,
  17. Thus you shall say to Joseph: "I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong." Now please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father, and Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
  18. Then his brothers also came and fell down before him, and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
  19. Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?"
  20. But as for you, you intended evil against me, but God intended it for good, in order to bring about this present result, to save many people alive.
  21. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones, and he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
  22. So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's household, and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
  23. Joseph saw Ephraim's sons to the third generation, and the children of Machir the son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees.
  24. And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely come to your aid and bring you up out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
  25. Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely come to your aid, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
  26. So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years, and they embalmed him, and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.