Genesis 50:2-11

2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians 1embalmed Israel.
3 Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians 2wept for him seventy days.
4 When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
5 '3My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my grave 4which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.' "
6 Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear."
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
9 There also went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.
10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they 5lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.
11 Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore * it was named * Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Cross References 5

  • 1. Genesis 50:26; 2 Chronicles 16:14; Matthew 26:12; Mark 16:1; John 19:39, 40
  • 2. Genesis 50:10; Numbers 20:29; Deuteronomy 34:8
  • 3. Genesis 47:29-31
  • 4. 2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 22:16; Matthew 27:60
  • 5. Acts 8:2

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