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50And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel. 3And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.

4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying: 5My 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 back.' 6And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.' 7And 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, 8and 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. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company. 10And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said: 'This is a grievous 68mourning to the Egyptians.' Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. 13For 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 burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre.

14And 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. 15And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' 16And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying: 17So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 18And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.' 19And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 21Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.' And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.

22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. 24And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' 25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.' 26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

1.Heb. Hiddekel.

2.Heb. Isshah.

3.Heb. Ish.

4.Heb. Havvah , that is, Life .

5.Heb. kanah , to get.

6.That is, Wandering .

7.Heb. Mehijael.

8.Heb. Sheth.

9.Heb. shath.

10.Heb. nahem , to comfort.

11. Heb. japhth.

12.That is, Division.

13.Heb. balal , to confound.

14.That is, God heareth.

15.Heb. El roi.

16.That is, The well of the Living One who seeth me.

17.Heb. Ab hamon.

18.That is, Princess.

19.From the Heb. root meaning to laugh .

20.That is, Little , see verse 20.

21.Heb. jireh; that is see for Himself.

22.That is, The Lord seeth.

23.That is, Mesopotamia.

24.That is, One that takes by the heel, or, supplants.

25.That is, Red.

26.That is, Contention.

27.that is, Enmity.

27.That is, Room.

29.That is, The house of God.

30.Heb. raah beonji.

31.Heb. shama.

32.Heb. Shimeon.

33.From the Heb. root lavah.

34.From the Heb. hodah.

35.Heb. Jehudah.

36.Heb. dan , be judged.

37.Heb. niphtal , he wrestled.

38.That is, Fortune.

39.That is, Happy.

40.Heb. sachar.

41.Heb. zabal , he dwelt.

42.Heb. asaph.

43.Heb. joseph.

44.That is, the Euphrates.

45.That is, The heap of witness , in Aramaic.

46.That is, The heap of witness , in Hebrew.

47.That is, The watch-post.

48.That is, Two camps.

49.That is, He who striveth with God.

50.That is, The face of God.

51.Heb. Penuel.

52.That is, Booths.

53.That is, God, the God of Israel.

54.That is, The God of Beth-el.

55.That is, The oak of weeping.

56.That is, The son of my sorrow.

57.That is, The son of the right hand.

58.Heb. Edom.

59.Heb. Dishan.

60.Heb. Medanites.

61.That is, A breach.

62.That is, the Nile.

63.That is, Making to forget.

64.From a Hebrew word signifying to be fruitful.

65.Heb. schechem , shoulder.

66. Heb. gedud.

67. From the Heb. root gadad.

68.Heb. ebel.

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1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; 10come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.' 11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 14And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.