01:050:002 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
01:050:003 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.
01:050:004 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,
01:050:005 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.
01:050:006 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as
he made thee swear.
01:050:007 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,
01:050:008 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.
01:050:009 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and
it was a very great company.
01:050:010 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.
01:050:011 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.
01:050:012 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
01:050:013 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.
01:050:014 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.
01:050:015 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.
01:050:016 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father
did command before he died, saying,
01:050:017 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.
01:050:018 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face;
and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
01:050:019 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place
of God?
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