1 And 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 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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
9 And
there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great
company.
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.
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 Abelmizraim, which is beyond
Jordan.
12 And
his sons did unto him according as he 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 for a possession of a
buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
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.
16 And
they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he
died, saying,
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.
18 And
his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy
servants.
19 And
Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for 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.
21 Now
therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
22 And
Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and 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.
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.
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.
