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1 And Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept on him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And they spent forty days at it, for those are the days spent in embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I am dying: in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury your father, as he made you 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 Judah, 8 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 Both chariots and horsemen went up with him, and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation; and he mourned 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 deep mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12 And 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, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt: he, and his brothers, and all who went 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 fully repay to us all that evil which we did to him.
16 And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father commanded before he died, saying, 17 You shall tell Joseph, Now please forgive the offense of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you. Now please forgive the offense of the servants of the god of your father.
18 And his brothers also went and fell down before him, and they said, Behold, we are your servants.
19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20 And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about the current result, to save many people alive. 22 Now therefore fear not: I will provide for you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s house; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation, and the children of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees. 24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up 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 up my bones from here. 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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