Genesis 50
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Then Joseph v fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to w embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
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Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians x wept for him seventy days.
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And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, y "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb z that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
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And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
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So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
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as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left a in the land of Goshen.
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
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When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, b they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he c made a mourning for his father seven days.
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When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.
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Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,
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for d his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham e bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
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When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him."
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So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,
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'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of f the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
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His brothers also came and g fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants."
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But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for h am I in the place of God?
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As for you, you meant evil against me, but i God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
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So do not fear; j I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
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So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years.
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children k of the third generation. The l children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were m counted as Joseph's own.
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And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but n God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land o that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
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Then p Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
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So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They q embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
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Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
Luke 23:56
Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
John 19:39 - 40
Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
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Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Numbers 20:29
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Job 2:13
And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
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Genesis 47:29
And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.
Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
Isaiah 22:16
What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?
Matthew 27:60
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
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Genesis 45:10
You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
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2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son.
Acts 8:2
Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.
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Genesis 50:3
Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
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Genesis 49:29 - 30
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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Genesis 23:16
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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Genesis 49:25
By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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Genesis 37:7
Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.
Genesis 37:10
But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?
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Genesis 30:2
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
2 Kings 5:7
And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.
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Genesis 45:5
And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
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Genesis 45:11
There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.
Genesis 47:12
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
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Job 42:16
And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
Psalms 128:6
May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
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Numbers 32:39
And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
1 Chronicles 7:14 - 15
The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
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Genesis 30:3
Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
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Genesis 15:14
But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Exodus 3:16 - 17
Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
Hebrews 11:22
By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
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Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Genesis 46:4
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.
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Exodus 13:19
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.
Joshua 24:32
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
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