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And Joseph fell upon the faces of his father , and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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And Joseph commanded his servants the healers to embalm his father ; and the healers embalmed Israel .
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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of the embalmed; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days .
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And the days of weeping for him had passed , and Joseph spoke to▵ the house of Pharaoh , saying, If, I pray◦, I have··found grace in your eyes , speak , I pray◦, in the ears of Pharaoh , saying,
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My father made me promise, saying, Behold, I▵ die ; in my sepulcher which I have dug ··out for me in the land of Canaan , there shalt thou bury me. And now, I pray◦, let me go··up, and bury my father , and I will return .
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And Pharaoh said , Go··up, and bury thy father , according as◦ he made thee promise.
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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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and all the house of Joseph , and his brothers , and his father ’s house ; only their infants, and their flocks , and their herds , they left◦ in the land of Goshen .
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And there went··up with him both◦ chariots and◦ horsemen ; and the camp was very heavy.
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And they came to◦ the threshing··floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan , and they wailed there a very great and heavy wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days .
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And the dweller in the land , the Canaanite, saw the mourning in the threshing··floor called Atad, and they said , This is a heavy mourning for the Egyptians . Therefore he called the name of it Abelmizraim*, which is at the crossing of the Jordan .
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And his sons did to him thus◦, as◦ he had commanded them;
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and 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 sepulcher, from Ephron the Hittite , upon the faces of Mamre .
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And Joseph returned into Egypt , he◦ and his brothers , and all that went··up with◦ him to bury his father , after he had buried his father .
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And the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was··dead , and they said , Perhaps Joseph will hate◦ us , and returning will return to us all the evil with which we recompensed him.
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And they commanded Joseph , saying, Thy father did command before his death, saying,
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Thus you shall say to Joseph , I pray◦, bear I pray◦, the transgression of thy brothers , and their sin , for they recompensed evil to thee; and now bear , I pray◦, the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father . And Joseph wept when they spoke to▵ him.
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And his brothers also went and fell down before him; and they said , Behold, we are thy servants .
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And Joseph said to▵ them, Fear ye not; for am I◦ in· God ’s ·stead?
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And you◦ thought evil against me, but God thought it for good , so··that it would be done as it is this day , to cause many people to live.
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And now fear ye not; I▵ will sustain you, and your infants. And he comforted them, and spoke on their heart .
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt , he◦ and his father ’s house ; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
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And Joseph saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation; also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were··born on the knees of Joseph .
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And Joseph said to▵ his brothers , I▵ die ; and visiting God will visit you, and will make you go··up from this land to▵ the land which was promised to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob .
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And Joseph promised of the sons of Israel , saying, Visiting God will visit you, and you shall make· my bones ·go··up from hence.
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And Joseph died , a son of a hundred and ten years; and they embalmed him, and he was set in an ark in Egypt .