English Bible
Genesis 50
Big screen- 1And 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.
- 3And 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.
- 4And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke 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,
- 5My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.
- 6And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, according as he made you swear.
- 7And 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,
- 8And 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.
- 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
- 10And they came to the threshing floor 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.
- 11And 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.
- 12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
- 13For 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.
- 14And 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.
- 15And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will possibly hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
- 16And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Your father did command before he died, saying,
- 17So shall all of you say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brethren, and their sin; for they did unto you evil: and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
- 18And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be your servants.
- 19And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
- 20But as for you, all of you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
- 21Now therefore fear all of you not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
- 22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
- 23And 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.
- 24And 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 swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- 25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and all of you shall carry up my bones from behind.
- 26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.