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Genesis
Chapter 50
1
And Joseph fell upon his father's face,
and
wept upon him,
and
kissed him.
2
And Joseph commanded his servants
the
physicians to embalm his father
and
the physicians embalmed Israel.
3
And forty days were fulfilled for him
for
so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed
and
the Egyptians mourned for him
threescore
and ten days {70 days}.
4
And when the days of his mourning were past,
Joseph
spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying,
"If
now I have found grace in your eyes,
speak,
I beseech you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5
My
father made me swear, saying,
Lo,
I die.
In
my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan,
there
shall you bury me.
Now
therefore let me go up,
I
beseech you, and bury my father,
and
I will come again."
6
And Pharaoh kept on saying,
Go
up, and bury your father, according as he made you swear.
7
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 8
And
all the house of Joseph,
and
his brethren,
and
his father's house . . .
only
their little ones,
and
their flocks,
and
their herds,
they
left in the land of Goshen.
9
And there went up with him
both
chariots and horsemen
and
it was a very great company.
10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad,
which
is beyond Jordan,
and
there they mourned with a great
and
very sore lamentation
and
he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,
saw
the mourning in the floor of Atad,
they
kept on saying,
"This
is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.
Therefore
the name of it was called Abelmizraim,
which
is beyond Jordan.
12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
13
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 burying place of Ephron the Hittite,
before
Mamre.
14
And Joseph returned into Egypt,
he,
and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father,
after
he had buried his father.
15^~And
when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
they
kept on saying,
"Joseph
will peradventure hate us,
and
will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him."
{Brother's
Lie to Joseph - More Human Viewpoint}
16-17^~And
they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying,
your
father did command before he died, saying, 17^~
"So
shall you say unto Joseph,
Forgive,
I beseech you now,
the
trespass of your brethren,
and
their sin
for
they did unto you evil.
And
now, we beseech you,
forgive
the trespass
of
the servants of the 'Elohiym/Godhead of your father."
And
Joseph wept
when
they spoke unto him
{why? because he realized that his brothers were still baby believers
- no maturity}.
{Note: This demonstrated the meanness of the souls of the brothers. They judged Joseph by 'what they would do in his place' instead of the pattern of the Grace of God. So they thought with Jacob dead Joseph would take his revenge on them now. Even believers often impute to others their own 'trends of their Old Sin Nature' and their incorrect motivations in life. Luck for them, Joseph did not share their smallness in soul.}
{Cowards
and Bullies Fall Apart When Braced}
18^~
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face;
and
they kept on saying,
"Behold,
we . . . {are} your slaves/servants {`ebed}
{crawling for their lives! They do not understand Grace.}."
19~~And
Joseph kept on saying unto them,
"Fear
not!
I
am not in the place of 'Elohiym/Godhead."
{Note: This means Joseph has put the matter in the hands of the Lord and has forgotten it personally. He has no intention in extracting revenge on his brothers - grace. God's man returns evil with GOOD. The fleshly/human response is to return evil with evil. And, Satan's man will respond evil when you do good!}
20^~"But
as for you {Joseph's brothers},
you
thought evil against me
{mental attitude sins - see chapter 37:4-5,8,11}
but
'Elohiym/God, only God, meant it for good {see Romans 8:28},
to
bring to pass,
as
it is this day,
to
save many people alive."
21^~"Now
therefore fear you not.
I
{Joseph} will nourish you {his brothers},
and
your little ones."
And
he comforted them,
and
spoke/communicated categorically' {dabar}
kindly
unto them.
22^~And
Joseph dwelt in Egypt,
he,
and his father's house
and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation.
The
children also of Machir the son of Manasseh
were
brought up upon Joseph's knees.
24-25^^
And Joseph kept on saying unto his brethren,
"I
die and 'Elohiym/God will surely visit you,
and
bring you out of this land
unto
the land which he swore to Abraham,
to
Isaac, and to Jacob." 25^^
And
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,
"
'Elohiym/God will surely visit you,
and
you shall carry up my bones from hence."
{Note: This promise of Joseph was a great comfort to the Jews in captivity in Egypt. Carrying Joseph's bones back to the Promised Land becomes the 'bible doctrine' that keeps the Jews in slavery in Egypt going. When the Exodus generation leaves Egypt, Joseph's coffin leads the way.}
26
So Joseph died,
being
an hundred and ten years old.
And
they embalmed him,
and
he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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