They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head
of him who is separated from his brothers.
049:027 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour
the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
049:028 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this
is what their father spoke to them and blessed them.
He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
049:029 He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people.
Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field
of Ephron the Hittite,
049:030 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,
in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field
from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they
buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
049:032 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased
from the children of Heth."
049:033 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered
up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit,
and was gathered to his people.
050:001 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.
050:002 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father;
and the physicians embalmed Israel.
050:003 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many
the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him
for seventy days.
050:004 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke
to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor
in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
050:005 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me
in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan."
Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father,
and I will come again.'"
050:006 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he
made you swear."
050:007 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house,
all the elders of the land of Egypt,
050:008 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house.
Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds,
they left in the land of Goshen.
050:009 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen.
It was a very great company.
050:010 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation.
He mourned for his father seven days.
050:011 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning
in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning
by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called
Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
050:012 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
050:013 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried
him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site,
from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
050:014 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all
that went up with him to bury his father, after he had
buried his father.
050:015 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,
"It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us
back for all of the evil which we did to him."
050:016 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded
before he died, saying,
050:017 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience
of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."'
Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God
of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
050:018 His brothers also went and fell down before his face;
and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
050:019 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
050:020 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good,
to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
050:021 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your
little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
050:022 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house.
Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
050:023 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation.
The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born
on Joseph's knees.
050:024 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely
visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land
which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
050:025 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will
surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
050:026 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.