Genesis 50
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Genesis 50:4-13

4When the days of 1mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak 2to Pharaoh, saying, 5‘3My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave 4which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now then, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’” 6Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

7So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. 9Chariots with teams of horses also went up with him; and it was a very great company. 10When they came to the 5threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they 6mourned there with a very great and 7sorrowful lamentation; and he 8observed seven days of mourning for his father. 11Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at 9the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a 10grievous 11mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named 12Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12And so his sons did for him as he had commanded them; 13for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in 13the cave of the field of Machpelah opposite Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a 14burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 50:4 Lit weeping ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 50:4 Lit In the ears of ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 50:5 Gen 47:29-31 ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 50:5 2 Chr 16:14; Is 22:16; Matt 27:60 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 50:10 Heb Goren ha-Atad ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 50:10 Acts 8:2 ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 50:10 Lit heavy ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 50:10 Lit made a mourning for seven days ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 50:11 Heb Goren ha-Atad ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 50:11 Lit heavy ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 50:11 Heb ebel ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 50:11 I.e., the meadow (or mourning) of Egypt ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 50:13 Gen 23:16-20; Acts 7:16 ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 50:13 Lit possession of a burial place ↩

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