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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.
22
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.
