{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/genesis/50","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T14:39:41.426Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":50,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":49,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, |If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"'My father made me swear, saying, |Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.| Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Pharaoh said, |Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.|"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, |This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.| Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"His sons did to him just as he commanded them,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"for 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 burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, |It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.|"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They sent a message to Joseph, saying, |Your father commanded before he died, saying,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"'You shall tell Joseph, |Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.|' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.| Joseph wept when they spoke to him."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, |Behold, we are your servants.|"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Joseph said to them, |Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.| He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Joseph said to his brothers, |I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.|"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, |God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.|"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 50 (WEB)","markdown":"[Genesis 50](https://primebible.com/web/genesis/50)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/genesis/50 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}