| 1 ¶ And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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| 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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| 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned1 for him threescore and ten days.
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| 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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| 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
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| 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
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| 7 ¶ And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
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| 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
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| 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
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| 10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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| 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim,2 which is beyond Jordan.
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| 12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
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| 13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
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| 14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
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| 15 ¶ And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
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| 16 And they sent3 a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
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| 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
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| 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
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| 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
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| 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
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| 21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly4 unto them.
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| 22 ¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
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| 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought5 up upon Joseph's knees.
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| 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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| 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
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| 26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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