Genesis 50

1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him. 2 Joseph ordered his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 They took forty days for it, for that is how long embalming takes. And Egypt wept for him for 70 days. 4 When the days of weeping for him had passed, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household. He said, "If I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5 'My father made me swear an oath. He said, "Look, I am about to die. In the grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you are to bury me." Now please let me go up and bury my father, and I will return.'" 6 Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear." 7 Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh's servants went up with him, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 along with all of Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. They left only their little ones and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company. 10 They came to the threshing floor of the boxthorn, which is beyond the Jordan. There they mourned with a great and very heavy lament, and Joseph held a time of mourning for his father for seven days. 11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of the boxthorn, they said, "This is a heavy mourning for Egypt." That is why people called the place Abel-mizraim. It is beyond the Jordan. 12 His sons did for him as he had commanded them. 13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre. Abraham had bought the field from Ephron the Hittite to hold as a grave. 14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph is hostile to us, and repays us in full for all the bad that we did to him?" 16 They sent word to Joseph, saying, "Before he died, your father gave this order:

17 'This is what you are to say to Joseph: "Please, forgive the wrongdoing of your brothers and their sin, for they did bad to you."' Now please forgive the wrongdoing of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18 His brothers also came and fell down before him. They said, "Here we are. We are your slaves." 19 Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid. For am I in the place of God? 20 You planned bad against me; God planned it for good, to do what is happening this day: to keep a great people alive. 21 And now, do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." He comforted them and spoke kindly to them. 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his father's household. Joseph lived 110 years. 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees. 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. God will surely come to your aid and bring you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to your aid, and you shall carry my bones up from here." 26 Joseph died at the age of 110. They embalmed him, and he was placed in the coffin in Egypt.