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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 50 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/50.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/50-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Genesis 50</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/49.htm" title="Genesis 49">◄</a> Genesis 50 <a href="../exodus/1.htm" title="Exodus 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.1" class="v0_50_1">1</span>Joseph threw himself on his father, crying and kissing his face. </span><span class="v0_50_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.2" class="v0_50_2">2</span>Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body. </span><span class="v0_50_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.3" class="v0_50_3">3</span>It took forty days, the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.4" class="v0_50_4">4</span>When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, “Please take this message to the king: </span><span class="v0_50_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.5" class="v0_50_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.50.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> ‘When my father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the tomb which he had prepared in the land of Canaan. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will come back.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.6" class="v0_50_6">6</span>The king answered, “Go and bury your father, as you promised you would.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.7" class="v0_50_7">7</span>So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph. </span><span class="v0_50_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.8" class="v0_50_8">8</span>His family, his brothers, and the rest of his father's family all went with him. Only their small children and their sheep, goats, and cattle stayed in the region of Goshen. </span><span class="v0_50_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.9" class="v0_50_9">9</span>Men in chariots and men on horseback also went with him; it was a huge group.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.10" class="v0_50_10">10</span>When they came to the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan, they mourned loudly for a long time, and Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days. </span><span class="v0_50_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.11" class="v0_50_11">11</span>When the citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, “What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding!” That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.50.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.12" class="v0_50_12">12</span>So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them; </span><span class="v0_50_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.13" class="v0_50_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.50.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> they carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground. </span><span class="v0_50_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.14" class="v0_50_14">14</span>After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him for the funeral.</span></p><h3 class="s">Joseph Reassures His Brothers</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.15" class="v0_50_15">15</span>After the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said, “What if Joseph still hates us and plans to pay us back for all the harm we did to him?” </span><span class="v0_50_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.16" class="v0_50_16">16</span>So they sent a message to Joseph: “Before our father died, </span><span class="v0_50_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.17" class="v0_50_17">17</span>he told us to ask you, ‘Please forgive the crime your brothers committed when they wronged you.’ Now please forgive us the wrong that we, the servants of your father's God, have done.” Joseph cried when he received this message.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.18" class="v0_50_18">18</span>Then his brothers themselves came and bowed down before him. “Here we are before you as your slaves,” they said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.19" class="v0_50_19">19</span>But Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid; I can't put myself in the place of God. </span><span class="v0_50_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.20" class="v0_50_20">20</span>You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened. </span><span class="v0_50_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.21" class="v0_50_21">21</span>You have nothing to fear. I will take care of you and your children.” So he reassured them with kind words that touched their hearts.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Death of Joseph</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_50_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.22" class="v0_50_22">22</span>Joseph continued to live in Egypt with his father's family; he was a hundred and ten years old when he died. </span><span class="v0_50_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.23" class="v0_50_23">23</span>He lived to see Ephraim's children and grandchildren. He also lived to receive the children of Machir son of Manasseh into the family. </span><span class="v0_50_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.24" class="v0_50_24">24</span>He said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” </span><span class="v0_50_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.25" class="v0_50_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.50.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then Joseph asked his people to make a vow. “Promise me,” he said, “that when God leads you to that land, you will take my body with you.” </span><span class="v0_50_26"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.50.26" class="v0_50_26">26</span>So Joseph died in Egypt at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed his body and put it in a coffin.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">50.11: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Abel Mizraim: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name sounds like the Hebrew for “mourning of the Egyptians.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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