Genesis Chapter49
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And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
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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,
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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.
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
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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.
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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 Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
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And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
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