Genesis 50:4-13
New International Version
4 When the days of mourning(A) had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,(B) “If I have found favor in your eyes,(C) speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5 ‘My father made me swear an oath(D) and said, “I am about to die;(E) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself(F) in the land of Canaan.”(G) Now let me go up and bury my father;(H) then I will return.’”
6 Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials(I) accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court(J) and all the dignitaries of Egypt— 8 besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.(K) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.(L) 9 Chariots(M) and horsemen[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company.
10 When they reached the threshing floor(N) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;(O) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period(P) of mourning(Q) for his father.(R) 11 When the Canaanites(S) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”(T) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[b]
12 So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:(U) 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,(V) near Mamre,(W) which Abraham had bought along with the field(X) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.(Y)
Footnotes
- Genesis 50:9 Or charioteers
- Genesis 50:11 Abel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.
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