Genesis Chapter 50:
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Genesis Verses, Chapter 50 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.
Joseph's death
- 1. Then Joseph fell on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.
- 2. Then he ordered the doctors to embalm him, and the doctors embalmed Israel.
- 3. They took forty days to embalm him, as that was the time needed to carry out the embalming procedures. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- 4. When the time of mourning was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's house, saying, “If now I have found favor with you, I beseech you, speak in Pharaoh's ears, saying,
- 5. 'My father made me swear, saying: “Behold, I am about to die; bury me in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, let me go and bury my father, and then I will come back'”.
- 6. Pharaoh replied, “Go, bury your father, as he made you swear.”
- 7. So Joseph went to bury his father; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
- 8. as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers and his father's house; they only left the children, the flock, and the cattle in the land of Goshen.
- 9. Chariots and horsemen also went up with him; and the procession was very large.
- 10. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they made a great and lamentable funeral ceremony; and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
- 11. When the Canaanites who lived in that region saw the lamentation on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a great lamentation of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was called Abel-Mizraim; it is beyond Jordan.
- 12. So the sons of Jacob did as he commanded them.
- 13. They took him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a burial property, and which is in front of Mamre.
- 14. After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
- 15. Seeing Joseph's brothers that their father was dead, they said, "Surely Joseph will hate us and will repay us for all the evil we did to him."
- 16. So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Before his death, your father commanded us:
- 17. 'Thus shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they have wronged thee.' Now therefore, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father.” Joseph wept when they told him.
- 18. Afterward, his brothers also came and prostrated themselves before him and said, “Here are we as your servants.”
- 19. But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, am I in the place of God?
- 20. Indeed, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to do as it is today, to save many people alive.
- 21. Now therefore fear not; I will support you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke to their hearts.
- 22. So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and he lived a hundred and ten years.
- 23. Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.
- 24. Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
- 25. Then Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying, "Surely God will visit you, and you will bring up my bones from hence."
- 26. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
