Genesis 50

1 And Joseph falls on his father’s face, and weeps over him, and kisses him;

And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father’s face weeping and kissing him.

2 and Joseph commands his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;

And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.

3 and they fulfill for him forty days, for so they fulfill the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.

And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

4 And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaks to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:

5 My father caused me to swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there you bury me; and now, please let me go up and bury my father, then I return”;

For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.

6 and Pharaoh says, “Go up and bury your father, as he caused you to swear.”

And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

7 And Joseph goes up to bury his father, and all [the] servants of Pharaoh go up with him, [the] elderly of his house, and all [the] elderly of the land of Egypt,

So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen;

And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

9 and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great.

He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

10 And they come to the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he makes for his father a mourning seven days,

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

11 and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, sees the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad and says, “A grievous mourning [is] this to the Egyptians”; therefore [one] has called its name “The mourning of the Egyptians,” which [is] beyond the Jordan.

And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

12 And his sons do to him so as he commanded them,

So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

13 and his sons carry him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.

And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre.

14 And Joseph turns back to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father.

And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.

15 And the brothers of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, “Perhaps Joseph hates us, and certainly returns to us all the evil which we did with him.”

Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

16 And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,

And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,

17 Thus you say to Joseph: Ah, now, please bear with the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they have done you evil; and now, please bear with the transgression of the servants of the God of your father”; and Joseph weeps in their speaking to him.

That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

18 And his brothers also go and fall before him, and say, “Behold, we [are] to you for servants.”

And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.

19 And Joseph says to them, “Do not fear, for [am] I in the place of God?

And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?

20 As for you, you devised evil against me, [but] God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

21 and now, do not fear: I nourish you and your infants”; and he comforts them, and speaks to their heart.

Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

22 And Joseph dwells in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph lives one hundred and ten years,

And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father’s house: and lived a hundred and ten years.

23 and Joseph looks on Ephraim’s sons of a third [generation]; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.

And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasses were born on Joseph’s knees.

24 And Joseph says to his brothers, “I am dying, and God certainly inspects you, and has caused you to go up from this land, to the land which He has sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

25 And Joseph causes the sons of Israel to swear, saying, “God certainly inspects you, and you have brought up my bones from this [place].”

And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:

26 And Joseph dies, a son of one hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.

And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.