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Genesis 50

Genesis 50

Genesis 50:1 ^
And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.
Genesis 50:1 ^
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50:2 ^
And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.
Genesis 50:2 ^
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50:3 ^
And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.
Genesis 50:3 ^
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.
Genesis 50:4 ^
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:
Genesis 50:4 ^
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis 50:5 ^
My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.
Genesis 50:5 ^
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.
Genesis 50:6 ^
And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.
Genesis 50:6 ^
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
Genesis 50:7 ^
So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,
Genesis 50:7 ^
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,
Genesis 50:8 ^
And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.
Genesis 50:8 ^
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.
Genesis 50:9 ^
And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.
Genesis 50:9 ^
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
Genesis 50:10 ^
And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.
Genesis 50:10 ^
And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11 ^
And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.
Genesis 50:11 ^
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 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Genesis 50:12 ^
So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:
Genesis 50:12 ^
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Genesis 50:13 ^
For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.
Genesis 50:13 ^
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 burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Genesis 50:14 ^
And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.
Genesis 50:14 ^
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.
Genesis 50:15 ^
Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.
Genesis 50:15 ^
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Genesis 50:16 ^
So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,
Genesis 50:16 ^
And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
Genesis 50:17 ^
You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.
Genesis 50:17 ^
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Genesis 50:18 ^
Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.
Genesis 50:18 ^
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.
Genesis 50:19 ^
And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?
Genesis 50:19 ^
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
Genesis 50:20 ^
As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
Genesis 50:20 ^
And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Genesis 50:21 ^
So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
Genesis 50:21 ^
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Genesis 50:22 ^
Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.
Genesis 50:22 ^
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
Genesis 50:23 ^
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
Genesis 50:23 ^
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.
Genesis 50:24 ^
Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
Genesis 50:24 ^
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Genesis 50:25 ^
Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.
Genesis 50:25 ^
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.
Genesis 50:26 ^
So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
Genesis 50:26 ^
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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