Chapter 49
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And he commanded them and said to them, "I am gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the tomb in the Field of Ephron the Hittite."
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in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is on the face of Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought—the field—from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burial site.
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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the possession of the field and the cave that is in it, from the sons of Heth.
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And Jacob finished commanding his sons and gathered his feet onto the bed and expired and was gathered to his people.
Chapter 50
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Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
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Joseph commanded his servants, the healers, to embalm his father, and the healers embalmed Israel.
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They fulfilled for him forty days, for this is how the days of embalming are fulfilled, and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
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When the days of his weeping had passed, 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,"
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"My father made me swear, saying, 'Behold, I am dying. In my burial site which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.' And now please let me go up and bury my father, and I will return."
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And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear."
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And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.
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And all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's house went up—only their little ones, their sheep, and their cattle they left in the land of Goshen.
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And he went up with him—also chariot, also horsemen—and the camp was very heavy.
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They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and heavy lamentation. He made for his father a mourning of seven days.
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And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and they said, "This is a heavy mourning to Egypt." On account of this he called its name Mourning of Egypt, which is across the Jordan.
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And his sons did for him just as he had commanded.
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And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought—the field as a legal possession for a burial site—from Ephron the Hittite, on the face of Mamre.
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Joseph returned to Egypt—he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father—after they had buried his father.