1: And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. |
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2: And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. |
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3:
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. |
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4: 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, |
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5: 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. |
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6: And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made
thee swear. |
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7: 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, |
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8: 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. |
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9: And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was
a very great company. |
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10: 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. |
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11: 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 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. |
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12: And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: |
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13: 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. |
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14: 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. |
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15: 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. |
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16: And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying, |
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17: 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. |
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18: And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
they said, Behold, we be thy servants. |
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19: And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of
God? |
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20: But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. |
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21: Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little
ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. |
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22: And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph
lived an hundred and ten years. |
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23: And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the
children also of Machir the son Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's
knees. |
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24: And 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 sware to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. |
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25: And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. |
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26: So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. |