Genesis 50

1 Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.

And Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept on him, and kissed him.

2 And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days.

4 And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: “If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh.

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 For my father made me swear, saying: ‘See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.”

My father made me swear, saying, See, I die: in my grave which I have dig for me in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said to him, “Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.”

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, according as he made you swear.

7 So as he went up, all the elders of the house of Pharaoh went with him, along with every patriarch in the land of Egypt,

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,

8 and the house of Joseph with his brothers, except their little ones and flocks and also the herds, which they left behind in the land of Goshen.

And all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 Likewise, he had in his company chariots and horsemen. And it became a crowd without restraint.

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 And they arrived at the threshing place of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan. There they spent seven full days celebrating the funeral rites with a great and vehement lamentation.

And they came to the threshing floor 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.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land of Canaan had seen this, they said, “This is a great Lamentation for the Egyptians.” And for this reason, the name of that place was called, “The Lamentation of Egypt.”

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: why the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12 And so, the sons of Jacob did just as he had instructed them.

And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:

13 And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial, opposite Mamre.

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 burial plot of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brothers and all those of his company, having buried his father.

And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 Now that he was dead, his brothers were afraid, and they said to one another: “Perhaps now he may remember the injury that he suffered and requite us for all the evil that we did to him.”

And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him.

16 So they sent a message to him, saying: “Your father instructed us before he died,

And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Your father did command before he died, saying,

17 that we should say these words to you from him: ‘I beg you to forget the wickedness of your brothers, and the sin and malice that they practiced against you.’ Likewise, we petition you to release the servants of the God of your father from this iniquity.” Hearing this, Joseph wept.

So shall you say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brothers, and their sin; for they did to you evil: and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 And his brothers went to him. And reverencing prostrate on the ground, they said, “We are your servants.”

And his brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be your servants.

19 And he answered them: “Do not be afraid. Are we able to resist the will of God?

And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

20 You devised evil against me. But God turned it into good, so that he might exalt me, just as you presently discern, and so that he might bring about the salvation of many peoples.

But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it to good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

21 Do not be afraid. I will pasture you and your little ones.” And he consoled them, and he spoke mildly and leniently.

Now therefore fear you not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22 And he lived in Egypt with all his father’s house; and he survived for one hundred and ten years.

And Joseph dwelled in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And he saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation. Likewise, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born onto Joseph’s knees.

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

24 After these things happened, he said to his brothers: “God will visit you after my death, and he will make you ascend from this land into the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And when he had made them swear and had said, “God will visit you; carry my bones with you from this place,”

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from hence.

26 he died, having completed one hundred and ten years of his life. And having been embalmed with aromatics, he was laid to rest in a coffin in Egypt.

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.