Genesis 50

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

And Joseph fell on 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 physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”

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

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

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it 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 there they mourned 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 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 Jacob's sons did what he had instructed them to do.

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

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.

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 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 into Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried 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 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 Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order,

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

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

And his brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be 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 am I in the place of God?

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

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

Now therefore fear you not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. 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 dwelled in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an 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 Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

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

26 Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed 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.