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.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph
spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your
eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury
me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will
come again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,
according as he made thee 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 said, This is a
grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abel-mizraim, 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 buryingplace 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 said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly
requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy
father did command before he died, saying,
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee
now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil:
and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy
father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his
face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I
in the place of God?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but
God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save
much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and
your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake 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 And Joseph said unto his
brethren, I die, and go unto my fathers; and I go down
to my grave with joy. The God of*
father Jacob be with you, to deliver you out of affliction in the days of your
bondage; for the Lord hath visited me, and I have obtained a promise of the
Lord, that out of the fruit of my loins, the Lord God will raise up a righteous
branch out of my loins; and unto thee, whom my father Jacob hath named Israel,
a prophet; (not the Messiah who is called Shilo;) and this prophet shall
deliver my people out of Egypt in the days of thy bondage.
25 And it shall come to
pass that they shall be scattered again; and a branch shall be broken off, and
shall be carried into a far country; nevertheless they shall be remembered in
the covenants of the Lord, when the Messiah cometh, for he shall be made
manifest unto them in the latter days, in the Spirit of power; and shall bring
them out of darkness into light; out of hidden darkness, and out of captivity
unto freedom.
26 A seer shall the
Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit of my loins.
27 Thus saith the Lord
God of my fathers unto me, A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of
thy loins, and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins; and
unto him will I give commandment*
that he shall do a work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren.*
28 And he shall bring
them to the knowledge of the covenants which I have made with thy fathers;*
and he shall do whatsoever work I shall command him.
29 And I will make him
great in mine eyes, for he shall do my work; and he shall be great like unto
him whom I have said I would raise up unto you, to deliver my people, O house
of Israel, out of the land of Egypt; for a seer will I raise up to deliver my
people out of the land of Egypt; and he shall be called Moses. And by this name
he shall know that he is of thy house; for he shall be nursed by the king’s
daughter, and shall be called her son.
30 And again, a seer
will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins, and unto him will I give power
to bring forth my word unto the seed of thy loins; and not to the bringing
forth of my word only, saith the Lord, but to the convincing them of my word,
which shall have already gone forth among them in the last days;
31 Wherefore the fruit
of thy loins shall write, and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and
that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which
shall be written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow together unto
the confounding of false doctrines, and laying down of contentions, and
establishing peace among the fruit of thy loins, and bringing them to a
knowledge of their fathers in the latter days; and also to the knowledge of my
covenants, saith the Lord.
32 And out of weakness
shall he be made strong, in that day when my work shall go forth among all my
people, which shall restore them, who are of the house of Israel, in the last
days.
33 And that seer will I
bless, and they that seek to destroy him shall be confounded; for this promise
I give unto you; for I will remember you from generation to generation; and his
name shall be called Joseph, and it shall be after the name of his father; and
he shall be like unto you; for the thing which the Lord shall bring forth by
his hand shall bring my people unto salvation.
34 And the Lord sware
unto Joseph, that he would preserve his seed forever, saying, I will raise up
Moses, and a rod shall be in his hand, and he shall gather together my people,
and he shall lead them as a flock, and he shall smite the waters of the Red Sea
with his rod.
35 And he shall have
judgment, and shall write the word of the Lord. And he shall not speak many
words, for I will write unto him my law by the finger of mine own hand. And I
will make a spokesman for him, and his name shall be called Aaron.
36 24 And it shall be done unto thee
in the last days also, even as I have sworn. Therefore, Joseph said unto his
brethren, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of
this land, unto the
land which he sware to unto Abraham, and to unto Isaac, and to Jacob.
37
25 And Joseph confirmed
many other things unto his brethren, and took an oath of the
children of Israel, saying unto them, God will surely visit you, and ye shall
carry up my bones from hence.
38 26 So Joseph died being when he was an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was they put him in a coffin in Egypt; and he was
kept from burial by the children of Israel, that he might be carried up and
laid in the sepulchre with his father. And thus they remembered the oath which
they sware unto him.