BERESHITH (GENESIS) 50

Gen 50:1 And Yosĕph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and
kissed him.
Gen 50:2 And Yosĕph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father. So the physicians embalmed Yisra’ĕl.
Gen 50:3 And forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the
days of embalming. And the Mitsrites wept for him seventy days.
Gen 50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Yosĕph spoke to
the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If, now, I have found favour in your eyes,
please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
Gen 50:5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “See, I am dying, bury me in
my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Kena‛an.” And now, please let
me go up and bury my father, and return.’ ”
Gen 50:6 And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you
swear.”
Gen 50:7 And Yosĕph 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 Mitsrayim,
Gen 50:8 and all the house of Yosĕph, and his brothers, and his father’s
house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the
land of Goshen.
Gen 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it
was a very great company.
Gen 50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, which is beyond the
Yardĕn, and they lamented there with a great and very heavy lamentation.
And he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
Gen 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kena‛anites, saw the
mourning at the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, they said, “This is a grievous
mourning for the Mitsrites.” That is why its name was called Aḇĕl
Mitsrayim, which is beyond the Yardĕn.
Gen 50:12 And his sons did to him as he had commanded them,
Gen 50:13 for his sons brought him to the land of Kena‛an, and buried him in
the cave of the field of Maḵpĕlah, before Mamrĕ, which Aḇraham bought
with the field from Ephron the Ḥittite as property for a burial site.
Gen 50:14 And after he had buried his father, Yosĕph returned to Mitsrayim,
he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
Gen 50:15 And when Yosĕph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they
said, “What if Yosĕph hates us, and pays us back all the evil which we did to
him?”
Gen 50:16 And they sent word to Yosĕph, saying, “Before your father died
he commanded, saying,
Gen 50:17 ‘This is what you are to say to Yosĕph, “I beg you, please forgive
the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.” ’
And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the Elohim of
your father.” And Yosĕph wept when they spoke to him.
Gen 50:18 And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and
they said, “See, we are your servants.”
Gen 50:19 And Yosĕph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of
Elohim?
Gen 50:20 “And you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it
for good, in order to do it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.
Gen 50:21 “And now, do not fear, I provide for you and your little ones.” So
he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Gen 50:22 And Yosĕph dwelt in Mitsrayim, he and his father’s household.
And Yosĕph lived one hundred and ten years.
Gen 50:23 And Yosĕph saw Ephrayim’s children to the third generation. The
children of Maḵir, son of Menashsheh, were also brought up on Yosĕph’s
knees.
Gen 50:24 And Yosĕph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but Elohim shall
certainly visit you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He
swore to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ.”
Gen 50:25 And Yosĕph made the children of Yisra’ĕl swear, saying,
“Elohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from
here.”
Gen 50:26 And Yosĕph died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they
embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim.