50:1 Joseph bent over his father
and wept over him
and kissed him.
50:2 Joseph directed his physicians
to embalm his father.
So the physicians embalmed
50:3 Forty days were required for this
as this was the time required for embalming.
The Egyptians mourned for seventy days.
50:4 When the time of mourning passed
Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s officials:
If I have found favor in your eyes
tell Pharaoh for me:
50:5 My father made me promise him
because he was dying
that I should bury him
in the tomb he dug
for himself in
So please let me travel there
and bury my father.
50:6 Pharaoh said:
Go ahead and bury your father there
just as he made you promise.
50:7 So Joseph left to bury his father.
All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him
those dignitaries in his palace
along with all the dignitaries of
50:8 Along with Joseph’s family
and his brothers and their father’s family.
They left only their children
and their flocks and herds
in the
50:9 Chariots and riders went with him.
It was a very large group.
50:10 When they got to the barn in Atad
nearby the
they mourned in sorrow and lamenting
and there Joseph observed seven days
of mourning for his father.
50:11 When Canaanites living there
saw the mourning in the barn at Atad
they said it was a serious Egyptian mourning.
So that place along the
is now called Abel Mizraim.
50:12 Thus his sons did what he instructed:
50:13 They carried his body to
and buried him in the cave
in the field of Machpelah near Mamre
which Abraham had bought
along with the field from Ephron the Hittite.
50:14 After burying his father
Joseph went back to
together with his brothers
and everyone else who went
with him to bury his father.
50:15 Once Joseph’s brothers knew
their father was dead
they wondered if Joseph
would hold a grudge
and pay them back for all
they had done to him.
50:16 So they sent a message to Joseph
that his father left some instructions
before he passed away:
50:17 You need to ask Joseph
to forgive his brothers
for the wrongs committed
by treating him so poorly.
So we ask you to please forgive
the wrongs of the servants
of the God of your father.
When their message arrived
Joseph wept.
50:18 His brothers went to him
and threw themselves down
in front of him saying:
We are your servants.
50:19 Yet Joseph told them:
Do not be worried.
Am I in God's position?
50:20 You may have wanted to harm me
but God had a good purpose
as is occurring right now
to preserve the lives of many.
50:21 So do not worry.
I will take care of you and your children.
Thus he reassured them
and spoke kindly to them.
50:22 Joseph and his family remained in
He lived for 110 years.
50:23 He saw the third generation
of Ephraim’s children.
Also the children of Makir
the son of Manasseh
were put on Joseph’s knees at birth.
50:24 Then Joseph told his brothers:
I am about to die.
But surely God cares for you
and will bring you out of this world
to the world he promised
to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
50:25 So Joseph made a promise
to the followers of
God will surely be with you
just as my soul will ascend
away from this place.
50:26 So Joseph passed away
at the age of a hundred and ten.
And after they embalmed his body
it was placed in a coffin in
