Genesis 50
Genesis 50:1 Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.
Genesis 50:2 And Joseph commanded his slaves — the healers — to embalm his father. So, the healers embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50:3 Forty days were required for it, because that is how many days are required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Genesis 50:4 And when the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, and this is what he said, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please appeal to Pharaoh on my behalf, saying,
Genesis 50:5 My father made me swear, and this is what he said, ‘Notice, I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there will you bury me.’ Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.”
Genesis 50:6 And Pharaoh replied, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
Genesis 50:7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the slaves of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Genesis 50:8 as well as all the family of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s family. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
Genesis 50:9 And both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very heavy group.
Genesis 50:10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very loud and heavy lamentation, and he mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a heavy mourning by the Egyptians.” This is why the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.
Genesis 50:12 Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,
Genesis 50:13 because his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
Genesis 50:14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
Genesis 50:15 When Joseph’s brothers realized that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the wrong we did to him?”
Genesis 50:16 So they sent word to Joseph, and this is what they said, ” Before he died, your father gave this instruction:
Genesis 50:17 ‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the slaves of the God of your father.” When this word was presented to him, Joseph wept.
Genesis 50:18 Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, “Notice us; we are your slaves.”
Genesis 50:19 But Joseph replied to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant to wrong me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.
Genesis 50:21 So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
Genesis 50:23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; who were counted as his own.
Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am going to die. But God will certainly come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore by oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Genesis 50:25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. And this is what he said, “God will certainly come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis 50 quotes:
“The word for coffin here is the Hebrew ‘aron, meaning a chest or ark. This is the same word that was used for the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament. Its use here, of course, refers to the coffin in which the body of Joseph was placed. So great was Joseph’s faith in the promise of a land that he requested that his bones be taken from the land of Egypt to the Promised Land when the children of Israel left Egypt (w. 24-25, cf. Heb. 1 1 : 22). This mummy case, or coffin, remained with the Israelites through the forty-year wandering in the wilderness. It was taken from Egypt at the time of the exodus (Ex. 13:19) and was later buried in Shechem (Josh. 24:32).”
Davis, John James. Mummies, Men and Madness. BMH Books, 1972. p. 100.
“When you have totally forgiven another person, you do not want them to be afraid of you. Do you know the feeling of wanting another person to be just a little bit afraid of you? You refuse to be very friendly so that they remain worried whether or not you have forgiven them. Perhaps you give them the ever-so-slight cold shoulder— the type of thing that another could not be absolutely sure about. We are all experts at this, aren’t we? Or we act as though we do not see them, or we say all the right words— we even put on a smile— but we convey an unloving feeling so the other person still feels unforgiven, because this is what we want them to feel. We have all done that, haven’t we? Why? We want to control them so they will be afraid of us.”
Kendall, R. T. God Meant It for Good. MorningStar Publications, 1988. p. 201.
“Joseph testifies about the power of God’s presence in his life and in the world at large (see Genesis 50:20). This testimony is the fundamental message of the story of Joseph and of the book of Genesis as a whole. In this verse, the Hebrew word that is translated as meant in the NRSV can also be translated intended or planned. Thus Joseph tells us that God plans good for the world, even in the face of human evil.”
Hinton, Linda B. Genesis. Abingdon Press, 1994. p. 141.
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