Genesis 50

1 Joseph went and hugged his father, weeping over him and kissing him.

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

2 Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel.

3 This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.

And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

4 Once the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's officials, “If you'd be so kind, please speak to Pharaoh on my behalf, and explain to him that

And when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharao, saying, If I have found favour in your sight, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharao, saying,

5 my father made me swear an oath, telling me, ‘You must bury me in the tomb I've prepared for myself in Canaan. Please allow me to go and bury my father and then I'll return.’”

My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulchre which I dug for myself in the land of Chanaan, there you shall bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.

6 Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”

And Pharao said to Joseph, Go up, bury your father, as he constrained you to swear.

7 Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials went with him—all Pharaoh's senior advisors and all the leaders of Egypt—

So Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharao went up with him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

8 as well as Joseph's family, his brothers, and his father's family. They only left the small children and their flocks and herds back in Goshen.

And all the household of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of his father, and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Gesem.

9 They were accompanied by chariots and horsemen—a really large procession.

And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company.

10 When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in sorrow. Joseph held a seven-day ceremony of mourning for his father there.

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11 The Canaanites who lived there watched the ceremony of mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. They said, “This is a very sad time of mourning for the Egyptians,” so they renamed the place Abel-mizraim, which is on the other side of the Jordan.

And the inhabitants of the land of Chanaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.

12 Jacob's sons did what he had instructed them to do.

And thus his sons did to him.

13 They carried his body to Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.

14 After they had buried their father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt along with all those who had gone with them.

And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father.

15 However, now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became worried, saying, “Maybe Joseph is holding a grudge against us, and he'll pay us back for all the bad things we did to him.”

And when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, [Let us take heed], lest at any time Joseph remember evil against us, and recompense to us all the evils which we have done against him.

16 So they sent a message to Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order,

And they came to Joseph, and said, Your father adjured [us] before his death, saying,

17 ‘This is what you are to tell Joseph: Forgive your brothers their sins, the bad things they did to you, treating you in such a nasty way.’ Now please forgive us our sins, we who are servants of the God of your father.” When Joseph received their message, he cried.

Thus say you to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done you evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him.

18 Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”

And they came to him and said, We, these [persons], are your servants.

19 “You don't need to be afraid!” he told them. “I don't stand in the place of God, do I?

And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God's.

20 While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.

You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that [the matter] might be as [it is] today, and much people might be fed.

21 So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calmed them down.

And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22 Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's whole family. He lived to be 110,

And Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

23 and saw three generations of his son Ephraim, and the sons of Makir, Manasseh's son, were placed in his lap when they were born.

And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were borne on the sides of Joseph.

24 “I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will be with you, and he will lead you out of this country to the land that he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.

25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “When God comes to be with you, you must take my bones with you when you leave.”

And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then you shall carry up my bones hence with you.

26 Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.