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Genesis 50 |
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| 50:1
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. |
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| 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and
the physicians embalmed Israel. |
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| 50:3
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. |
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| 50:4
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, |
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| 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. |
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| 50:6
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee
swear. |
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| 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, |
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| 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. |
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| 50:9
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very
great company. |
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| 50:10
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. |
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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. |
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| 50:12
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: |
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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. |
 (50:13) "In the cave of the field of Machpelah"
Where was Jacob buried?
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| 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. |
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| 50:15
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. |
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| 50:16
And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command
before he died, saying, |
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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. |
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| 50:18
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said,
Behold, we be thy servants. |
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| 50:19
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? |
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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. |
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Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And
he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. |
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| 50:22
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten years. |
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| 50:23
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. |
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| 50:24
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. |
 (50:24) "Joseph said unto his brethren, I die."
Contrary to the prophecy, Joseph died in Egypt, not Israel.
(Genesis 46:4)
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| 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.
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| 50:26
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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