Genesis:50

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* And Joseph fell upon his father 's face , and wept upon him , and kissed him . * And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father . And the physicians embalmed Israel . * And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed . And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days . * And when the days of his mourning were past , Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh , saying , If now I have found favour in your eyes , speak , I pray you , in the ears of Pharaoh , saying , * My father made me swear , saying , Behold , I die ; in my grave which I have dug myself in the land of Canaan , there shalt thou bury me . And now , let me go up , I pray thee , that I may bury my father ; and I will come again . * And Pharaoh said , Go up and bury thy father , according as he made thee swear . * And Joseph went up to bury his father ; and with him went up all the bondmen of Pharaoh , the elders of his house , and all the elders of the land of Egypt , * 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 . * And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen ; and the camp was very great . * And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad , which is beyond the Jordan ; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation ; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days . * And the inhabitants of the land , the Canaanites , saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad , and they said , This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians . Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim , which is beyond the Jordan . * And his sons did to him according as he had commanded them ; * and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan , and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field , for a possession of a sepulchre , of Ephron the Hittite , opposite to Mamre . * And , after he had buried his father , Joseph returned to Egypt , he and his brethren , and all that had gone up with him to bury his father . * And when Joseph 's brethren saw that their father was dead , they said , If now Joseph should be hostile to us , and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him ! * And they sent a messenger to Joseph , saying , Thy father commanded before he died , saying , * Thus shall ye speak to Joseph : Oh forgive , I pray thee , the transgression of thy brethren , and their sin ! for they did evil to thee . And now , we pray thee , forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father . And Joseph wept when they spoke to him . * And his brethren also went and fell down before his face , and said , Behold , we are thy bondmen . * And Joseph said to them , Fear not : am I then in the place of God ? * Ye indeed meant evil against me : God meant it for good , in order that he might do as [it is ] this day , to save a great people alive . * And now , fear not : I will maintain you and your little ones . And he comforted them , and spoke consolingly to them . * And Joseph dwelt in Egypt , he and his father 's house ; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years . * And Joseph saw Ephraim 's children of the third [generation ]; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph 's knees . * And Joseph said to his brethren , I die ; and God will certainly visit you , and bring you up out of this land , into the land that he swore unto Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob . * And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel , saying , God will certainly visit you ; and ye shall carry up my bones hence . * And Joseph died , a hundred and ten years old ; and they embalmed him ; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt .

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