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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/genesis/50.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Abel-mizraim means mourning (or meadow) of Egypt">a</a></sup></span> it is beyond the Jordan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="heading">God’s Good Purposes</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or a numerous people">b</a></sup></span> should be kept alive, as they are today. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.</p> <p class="heading">The Death of Joseph</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s house. Joseph lived 110 years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph’s own.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew were born on Joseph's knees">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <i class="catch-word">Abel-mizraim</i> means <i>mourning</i> (or <i>meadow</i>) <i>of Egypt</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>a numerous people</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> Hebrew <i>were born on Joseph's knees</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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