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07/04/2004: "Finished the Book of Genesis"

GEN 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and
kissed him.
GEN 50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
GEN 50:3 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.
GEN 50:4 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,
GEN 50:5 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.
GEN 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made
thee swear.
GEN 50:7 ¶ 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,
GEN 50:8 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.
GEN 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a
very great company.
GEN 50:10 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.
GEN 50:11 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.
GEN 50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
GEN 50:13 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.
GEN 50:14 ¶ 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.
GEN 50:15 ¶ 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.
GEN 50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying,
GEN 50:17 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.
GEN 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they
said, Behold, we [be] thy servants.
GEN 50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of
God?
GEN 50:20 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.
GEN 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little
ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
GEN 50:22 ¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph
lived an hundred and ten years.
GEN 50:23 And 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.
GEN 50:24 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.
GEN 50:25 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.
GEN 50:26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.