Genesis 50
Revised Geneva Translation
50 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 So, forty days were fulfilled (for so long did the days of those who were embalmed last); and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
4 And when the days of his mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to the House of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have now found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, and say,
5 ‘My father made me swear saying, “Lo, I die. Bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.”’ Now, therefore, please let me go and bury my father; and I will come back.”
6 Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he has made you swear to do.”
7 So, Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
8 Likewise, all the House of Joseph went, and his brothers, and his father’s House. Only their children and their sheep and their cattle did they leave in the land of Goshen.
9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. And they were an exceedingly great company.
10 And they came to Goren Atad (which is beyond Jordan); and there they made a great and exceedingly severe lamentation. And he mourned for his father for seven days.
11 And when the Canaanites (the inhabitants of the land) saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, “This is a great mourning to the Egyptians.” Therefore, the name thereof was called “Abel Mizraim,” which is beyond Jordan.
12 So, his sons did to him as he had commanded them.
13 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 of Ephron the Hittite (beside Mamre) as a burial place.
14 Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”
16 Therefore, they sent to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,
17 ‘Thus shall you say to Joseph, “Please forgive, now, the trespass of your brothers and their sin. For they rewarded you evil.”’ And now, please forgive the trespass of the servants of your father’s God.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18 Also, his brothers came to him and fell down before his face, and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19 To whom Joseph said, “Do not fear. For, am not I under God?
20 “When you thought evil against me, God disposed it to good, so that He might bring to pass as it is this day and save many people alive.
21 “Now, therefore, do not fear. I will nourish you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
22 So, Joseph dwelt in Egypt (he and his father’s House). And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children, even to the third generation. Also, the sons of Machir (the son of Manasseh) were brought upon Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am ready to 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 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you; and you shall carry my bones from there.”
26 So, Joseph died when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
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