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Genesis Chapter 50

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

<>Joseph, <>kissed him

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

<>his servants, <>Israel

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

<>the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

<>the days of his mourning were past, <>house, <>If now I have found grace in your eyes, <>found grace, <>grace, <>in the ears

5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

<>swear, <>I die, <>my grave which I have digged for me, <>grave, <>bury me … bury my father, <>I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7 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,

<>vv. 7-9

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

<>vv. 7-9, <>their little ones

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

<>vv. 7-9

10 And they came to the threshingfloor 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.

<>made a mourning for his father seven days

11 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: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

<>inhabitants, <>the floor

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

<>did unto him according as he commanded

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 for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

<>Abraham, <>for a possession

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

<>was dead, <>will peradventure hate us, <>will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

<>sent a messenger

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

<>Forgive … forgive, <>Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren … forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father, <>the servants of the God of thy father, <>the God of thy father

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

<>we be thy servants

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

<>Fear not, <>am I in the place of God?

20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

<>thought evil, <>God meant it unto good, <>God meant it … to save much people

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

<>I will nourish you, and your little ones., <>little ones, <>comforted them

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

<>Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

<>v. 23, <>children … children, <>Manasseh

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

<>the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, <>Isaac, <>Jacob

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

26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

<>Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old, <>died


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