Genesis 50

¹And Joseph fell upon the face of his father and wept over 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 thus are the days of embalming fulfilled, and Egypt wept for him seventy days.

⁴And the days of his weeping passed. And Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying: If please I have found favor in your eyes, speak please in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:

⁵My father made me swear, saying: Look, I am dying — in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. And now, let me please go up and bury my father, and I will return.

⁶And Pharaoh said: Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.

⁷And Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him.

⁸and all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's house — only their little ones and their flocks and their cattle they left in the land of Goshen.

⁹And both chariots and horsemen went up with him, and it was a very heavy camp.

¹⁰And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a mourning for his father seven days.

¹¹And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad and said: This is a heavy mourning for Egypt. Therefore they called its name Abel-Mitsrayim, which is across the Jordan.

¹²And his sons did to him just as he had commanded them.

¹³And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought as a burial possession from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

¹⁴And Joseph returned to Egypt — he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father — after he had buried his father.

¹⁵And the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, and they said: If Joseph bears a grudge against us, he will surely repay us all the evil we did to him.

¹⁶And they commanded to Joseph, saying: Your father commanded before his death, saying:

¹⁷Thus shall you say to Joseph: Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for evil they did to you. And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

¹⁸And his brothers also came and fell before him and said, 'Here we are to you as servants.'

¹⁹And Joseph said to them: Do not be afraid — for am I in the place of God?

²⁰And you — you intended against me for evil; God intended it for good, in order to do as this day — to keep alive a numerous people.

²¹And now, do not be afraid. I myself will sustain you and your children. And he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

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

²³And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. Also the children of Machir son of Manasseh were born on the knees of Joseph.

²⁴And Joseph said to his brothers: I am dying. And God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

²⁵And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, 'God will surely take account of you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.'

²⁶And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.