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50:3 | And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. |
50:4 | And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh: |
50:5 | My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. |
50:6 | And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him. |
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50:7 | So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt, |
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50:9 | And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. |
50:10 | And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days. |
50:11 | And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. |
50:12 | So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: |
50:13 | For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre. |
50:14 | And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt. |
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50:16 | So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, |
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50:18 | Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants. |
50:19 | And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? |
50:20 | As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today. |
50:21 | So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words. |
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50:24 | Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. |
50:25 | Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here. |
50:26 | So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt. |