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Genesis 50:1 42 Genesis 50:26
50 thee euil. And nowe, we pray thee, forgiue the
1 Then Ioseph fell vpon his fathers face and trespasse of the seruants of thy fathers God. And
wept vpon him, and kissed him. 2 And Ioseph Ioseph wept, when they spake vnto him. 18 Also
commanded his seruantes the physicions, to en- his brethren came vnto him, and fell downe
baume his father, and the physicions enbaumed before his face, and sayde, Beholde, we be thy
Israel. 3 So fourtie dayes were accomplished seruants. 19 To whome Ioseph sayde, Feare not:
(for so long did the dayes of them that were for am not I vnder God? 20 When ye thought
enbaumed last) and the Egyptians bewayled him euill against mee, God disposed it to good, that
seuentie dayes. 4 And when the dayes of his he might bring to passe, as it is this day, and saue
mourning were past, Ioseph spake to the house much people aliue. 21 Feare not nowe therefore,
of Pharaoh, saying, If I haue nowe found fauour I will nourish you, and your children: and hee
in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of comforted them, and spake kindly vnto them.
Pharaoh, and say, My father made me sweare, 22 So Ioseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers
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saying, Loe, I die, bury me in my graue, which house: and Ioseph liued an hundreth and tenne
I haue made me in the land of Canaan: now yeere. 23 And Ioseph saw Ephraims children, euen
therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my vnto the third generation: also the sonnes of
father, and I wil come againe. 6 Then Pharaoh Machir the sonne of Manasseh were brought vp
said, Goe vp and bury thy father, as he made on Iosephs knees. 24 And Ioseph sayd vnto his
thee to sweare. 7 So Ioseph went vp to bury his brethren, I am ready to dye, and God will surely
father, and with him went all the seruants of visite you, and bring you out of this land, vnto ye
Pharaoh, both the elders of his house, and all the land which hee sware vnto Abraham, vnto Izhak,
elders of the land of Egypt. 8 Likewise all the and vnto Iaakob. 25 And Ioseph tooke an othe
house of Ioseph, and his brethren, and his fathers of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely
house: onely their children, and their sheepe, visite you, and ye shall cary my bones hence. 26 So
and their cattell left they in the land of Goshen. Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten
9 And there went vp with him both charets and yere olde: and they enbaumed him and put him
horsemen: and they were an exceeding great in a chest in Egypt.
company. 10 And they came to Goren Atad,
which is beyond Iorden, and there they made a
great and exceeding sore lamentation: and he
mourned for his father seuen dayes. 11 And when
the Canaanites the inhabitants of the lande sawe
the mourning in Goren Atad, they sayde, This is
a great mourning vnto the Egyptians: wherefore
the name thereof was called Abel Mizraim, which
is beyond Iorden. 12 So his sonnes did vnto him,
according as he had commanded them: 13 For his
sonnes caried him into the lande of Canaan, and
buried him in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah,
whichcaue Abrahamboughtwith the fielde, to be
a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite besides
Mamre. 14 Then Ioseph returned into Egypt, he
and his brethren, and al that went vp with him
to bury his father, after that he had buried his
father. 15 And when Iosephs brethren saw that
their father was dead, they sayde, It may be that
Ioseph will hate vs, and will pay vs againe all the
euill, which we did vnto him. 16 Therefore they
sent vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father commanded
before his death, saying, 17 Thus shall ye say vnto
Ioseph, Forgiue now, I pray thee, the trespasse of
thy brethren, and their sinne: for they rewarded