Verse 2
Genesis 50:2
Free Bible Version
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Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְצַ֨ו יוֹסֵ֤ף אֶת עֲבָדָי/ו֙ אֶת הָ/רֹ֣פְאִ֔ים לַ/חֲנֹ֖ט אֶת אָבִ֑י/ו וַ/יַּחַנְט֥וּ הָ/רֹפְאִ֖ים אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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Chapter 50 Context
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Joseph went and hugged his father, weeping over him and kissing him.
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Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physici...
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This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70...
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Once the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's officials, “If you'd be so kind, please...
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my father made me swear an oath, telling me, ‘You must bury me in the tomb I've prepared for myself...
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Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”
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Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials went with him—all Pharaoh's senior advis...
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as well as Joseph's family, his brothers, and his father's family. They only left the small children...
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They were accompanied by chariots and horsemen—a really large procession.
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When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in s...
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The Canaanites who lived there watched the ceremony of mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. They...
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They carried his body to Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, whi...
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After they had buried their father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt along with all those w...
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However, now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became worried, saying, “Maybe Joseph is...
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So they sent a message to Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order:
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‘This is what you are to tell Joseph: Forgive your brothers their sins, the bad things they did to y...
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Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”
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“You don't need to be afraid!” he told them. “I don't stand in the place of God (Elohim), do I?
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While you planned bad things for me, God (Elohim) planned it for good so that in the end many lives...
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So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calme...
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Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's whole family. He lived to be 110,
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and saw three generations of his son Ephraim, and the sons of Makir, Manasseh's son, were placed in...
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“I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God (Elohim) will be with you, and he will l...
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Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “When God (Elohim) comes to be with you, you m...
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Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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