GENESIS Chapter 50
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50:1 Joseph threw
himself on his father, crying and kissing his face. |
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50:2
Then Joseph
gave orders to embalm his father's body. |
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50:3 It took forty
days, the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy
days. |
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50:4 When the time
of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, "Please take
this message to the king: |
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50:5 'When my
father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the
tomb which he had prepared in the land of Canaan. So please let me go and
bury my father, and then I will come back.' " |
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50:6 The king answered, "Go and bury your father, as you promised
you would." |
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50:7
So Joseph
went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court,
and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph. |
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50:8 His family,
his brothers, and the rest of his father's family all went with him. Only
their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region
of Goshen. |
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50:9 Men in
chariots and men on horseback also went with him; it was a huge group. |
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50:10 When they came
to the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan,
they mourned loudly for a long time, and Joseph performed mourning ceremonies
for seven days. |
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50:11 When the
citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad,
they said, "What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are
holding!" That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.
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50:12 So Jacob's
sons did as he had commanded them; |
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50:13 they carried
his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah
east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought
from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground. |
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50:14
After Joseph
had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had
gone with him for the funeral. |
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50:15 After the
death of their father, Joseph's brothers said, "What if Joseph still
hates us and plans to pay us back for all the harm we did to him?" |
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50:16 So they sent a
message to Joseph: "Before our father died, |
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50:17 he told us to
ask you, 'Please forgive the crime your brothers committed when they wronged
you.' Now please forgive us the wrong that we, the servants of your father's
God, have done." Joseph cried when he received this message. |
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50:18 Then his brothers
themselves came and bowed down before him. "Here we are before you as
your slaves," they said. |
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50:19 But Joseph
said to them, "Don't be afraid; I can't put myself in the place of God. |
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50:20 You plotted
evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives
of many people who are alive today because of what happened. |
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50:21 You have
nothing to fear. I will take care of you and your children." So he
reassured them with kind words that touched their hearts. |
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50:22 Joseph
continued to live in Egypt with his father's family; he was a hundred and ten
years old when he died. |
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50:23 He lived to
see Ephraim's children and grandchildren. He also lived to receive the
children of Machir son of Manasseh into the family.
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50:24 He said to his
brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you
and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob." |
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50:25
Then Joseph
asked his people to make a vow. "Promise me," he said, "that
when God leads you to that land, you will take my body with you." |
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50:26
So Joseph
died in Egypt at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed his body and put
it in a coffin. |
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