Genesis Chapter 50

1Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face and wept upon him, and kissed him.

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

3So forty days were accomplished (for so long did the days of them that were embalmed last) and the Egyptians bewailed him seventy days.

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

5My 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 let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

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

7So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, both the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8Likewise all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their children, and their sheep, and their cattle left they in the land of Goshen.

9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and they were an exceeding great company.

10And they came to Goren Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they made a great and exceeding sore lamentation: and he mourned for his father seven days.

11And when the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, This is a great mourning unto the Egyptians: wherefore the name thereof was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12So his sons did unto him, according as he had commanded them:

13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which cave Abraham bought with the field, to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite beside Mamre.

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

15And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us again all the evil which we did unto him.

16Therefore they sent unto Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

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

18Also his brethren came unto him, and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we be thy servants.

19To whom Joseph said, Fear not: for am not I under God?

20When ye thought evil against me, God disposed it to good, that he might bring to pass, as it is this day, and save much people alive.

21Fear not now therefore, I will nourish you, and your children: and he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

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

23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children, even unto the third generation: also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought upon Joseph’s knees.

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

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

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