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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/50.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> was embalmed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said. <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. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.</p><p class="hdg">Joseph Reassures His Brothers</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But now that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers became fearful. “Now Joseph will show his anger and pay us back for all the wrong we did to him,” they said.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So they sent this message to Joseph: “Before your father died, he instructed us <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>to say to you: ‘Please forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did to you—for their sin in treating you so cruelly.’ So we, the servants of the God of your father, beg you to forgive our sin.” When Joseph received the message, he broke down and wept. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then his brothers came and threw themselves down before Joseph. “Look, we are your slaves!” they said.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>No, don’t be afraid. I will continue to take care of you and your children.” So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them.</p><p class="hdg">The Death of Joseph</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt. Joseph lived to the age of 110. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He lived to see three generations of descendants of his son Ephraim, and he lived to see the birth of the children of Manasseh’s son Makir, whom he claimed as his own.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”</p><p class="reg"> <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 an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/50-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So Joseph died at the age of 110. The Egyptians embalmed him, and his body was placed 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="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">50:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Israel.</span><span class="ft"> See note on 35:21.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">50:11 </span><span class="it">Abel-mizraim</span><span class="ft"> means “mourning of the Egyptians.”</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">who were born on Joseph’s knees.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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