Genesis 50

1Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.Cross-references: Gen 23:2 · Gen 46:4 · Deut 6:7 · 2Ki 13:14 · Mark 5:38 · John 11:35 · +3 more

2Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.Cross-references: Gen 50:26 · 2Chr 16:14 · Matt 26:12 · Mark 14:8 · Mark 16:1 · Luke 24:1 · +2 more

3Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.Cross-references: Gen 50:10 · Num 20:29 · Deut 21:13 · Deut 34:8

4When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,Cross-references: Gen 18:3 · Esth 4:2

5‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 47:29 · Gen 48:21 · Gen 49:29 · Gen 50:24 · Deut 4:22 · +11 more

6Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”Cross-references: Gen 48:21

7Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,Cross-references: Gen 14:16

8all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.Cross-references: Ex 10:8 · Ex 10:26 · Num 32:24

9Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company.Cross-references: Gen 41:43 · Gen 46:29 · Ex 14:7 · Ex 14:17 · Ex 14:28 · 2Ki 18:24 · +2 more

10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.Cross-references: Gen 50:4 · Gen 50:11 · Num 19:11 · Deut 1:1 · Deut 34:8 · 1Sam 31:13 · +3 more

11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 13:7 · Gen 24:6 · Gen 34:30 · Gen 50:10 · Deut 3:25 · +3 more

12His sons did to him just as he commanded them,Cross-references: Gen 47:29 · Gen 49:29 · Ex 20:12 · Acts 7:16 · Eph 6:1

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, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.Cross-references: Gen 23:16 · Gen 23:20 · Gen 25:9 · Gen 35:27 · Gen 35:29 · Gen 49:29 · +2 more

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

15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”Cross-references: Gen 27:41 · Gen 37:28 · Gen 42:17 · Gen 42:21 · Lev 26:36 · Job 15:21 · +4 more

16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,Cross-references: Prov 29:25

17‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.Cross-references: Gen 31:42 · Gen 42:21 · Gen 45:4 · Gen 45:8 · Gen 49:25 · Gen 50:20 · +16 more

18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”Cross-references: Gen 27:29 · Gen 37:7 · Gen 42:6 · Gen 44:14 · Gen 45:3

19Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?Cross-references: Gen 30:2 · Gen 45:5 · Deut 32:35 · 2Ki 5:7 · Job 34:19 · Matt 14:27 · +3 more

20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.Cross-references: Gen 37:4 · Gen 37:18 · Gen 45:5 · Ps 56:5 · Ps 76:10 · Ps 105:16 · +6 more

21Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.Cross-references: Gen 34:3 · Gen 45:10 · Gen 47:12 · Isa 40:2 · Matt 5:44 · Matt 6:14 · +3 more

22Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.Cross-references: Gen 30:3 · Gen 48:19 · Gen 49:12 · Num 32:33 · Num 32:39 · Josh 17:1 · +2 more

24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 13:17 · Gen 15:7 · Gen 15:14 · +21 more

25Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”Cross-references: Gen 47:29 · Gen 50:5 · Ex 13:19 · Josh 24:32 · Acts 7:16 · Heb 11:22

26So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.Cross-references: Gen 47:9 · Gen 47:28 · Gen 50:2 · Gen 50:22 · Josh 24:29