English Bible Presentation Sharing - Genesis Book, chapter 50, verse 53 in Mkjv Version

Genesis 50 : 1 (MKJV)

And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him.

Genesis 50 : 2 (MKJV)

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50 : 3 (MKJV)

And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Genesis 50 : 4 (MKJV)

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh saying,

Genesis 50 : 5 (MKJV)

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die. You shall bury me in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please, let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.

Genesis 50 : 6 (MKJV)

And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury your father, according as he made you swear.

Genesis 50 : 7 (MKJV)

And Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Genesis 50 : 8 (MKJV)

and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house. They left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50 : 9 (MKJV)

And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. And it was a very great company.

Genesis 50 : 10 (MKJV)

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Genesis 50 : 11 (MKJV)

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the grain floor of thorns, and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. Therefore they called its name, Meadow of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.

Genesis 50 : 12 (MKJV)

And his sons did to him according as he commanded them.

Genesis 50 : 13 (MKJV)

For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Genesis 50 : 14 (MKJV)

And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Genesis 50 : 15 (MKJV)

And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, and will certainly repay us all the evil which we did to him.

Genesis 50 : 16 (MKJV)

And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Genesis 50 : 17 (MKJV)

So shall you say to Joseph, please lift up the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin. For they did evil to you. And please now lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Genesis 50 : 18 (MKJV)

And his brothers also went and fell down before his face. And they said, Behold, we are your servants.

Genesis 50 : 19 (MKJV)

And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50 : 20 (MKJV)

But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive.

Genesis 50 : 21 (MKJV)

And now do not fear. I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts.

Genesis 50 : 22 (MKJV)

And Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his father's house. And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

Genesis 50 : 23 (MKJV)

And Joseph saw Ephraim's sons of the third generation. Also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.

Genesis 50 : 24 (MKJV)

And Joseph said to his brothers, I die. And God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land into the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Genesis 50 : 25 (MKJV)

And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.

Genesis 50 : 26 (MKJV)

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.