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So the physicians embalmed Israel; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>they spent forty days in doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, “If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</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> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1518a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> it is beyond the Jordan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</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.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Joseph Forgives His Brothers</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>So they approached<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1523b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>‘Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.’ Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then his brothers also wept,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-1525c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> fell down before him, and said, “We are here as your slaves.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Joseph’s Last Days and Death</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s household; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph’s knees.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 50:11">Genesis 50:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>mourning</i> (or <i>meadow</i>) <i>of Egypt</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 50:16">Genesis 50:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>they commanded</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 50:18">Genesis 50:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>also came</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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