Genesis 50

Joseph's Forgiveness and Reassurance

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 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 , ⁵My 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 . ⁶And Pharaoh said , Go up , and bury thy father , according as he made thee 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 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 . 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 Abel-mizraim , 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 .

Joseph's Forgiveness and Reassurance

¹⁵And 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. ¹⁶And they sent a messenger unto Joseph , saying , Thy father did command before he died , saying , ¹⁷So 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. ¹⁸And his brethren also went and fell down before his face ; and they said , Behold, we be thy servants . ¹⁹And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God ? ²⁰But 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 . ²¹Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones . And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Joseph's Final Days and Instructions

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 sware to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob . ²⁵And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel , saying , God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence . ²⁶So Joseph died , being an hundred and ten years old : and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt .