Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. Gen 46:41Th 4:132Ki 13:14Act 8:2Deu 6:7-8Eph 6:4Gen 23:2Jhn 11:35-38 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 2Ch 16:14Gen 50:26Jhn 19:39-40Mrk 16:1Mat 26:12Jhn 12:7Luk 24:1Mrk 14:8 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days. Deu 34:8Num 20:29Deu 21:13Gen 50:10
When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, Est 4:2Gen 18:3 ‘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.’” 2Ch 16:14Isa 22:16Mat 27:60Gen 47:29-311Sa 14:43Deu 4:22Ecc 12:5Ecc 12:7
Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.” Gen 48:21
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, Gen 14:16 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. Exo 10:26Exo 10:8-9Num 32:24-27 Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company. 2Ki 18:24Act 8:2Exo 14:17Exo 14:28Exo 14:7Gen 41:43Gen 46:29Sng 1:9 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. Act 8:2Job 2:132Sa 1:171Sa 31:13Deu 1:1Deu 34:8Gen 50:11Gen 50:4 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 its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. Gen 10:15-19Gen 24:61Sa 6:18Deu 11:30Deu 3:25Deu 3:27Gen 13:7Gen 34:30 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, Act 7:16Gen 49:29-32Eph 6:1Exo 20:12Gen 47:29-31 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, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. Act 7:16Gen 23:16-18Gen 49:29-312Ki 21:18Gen 23:20Gen 25:9Gen 35:27Gen 35:29 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.
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 the evil which we did to him.” Pro 28:1Gen 27:41-42Gen 42:21-22Job 15:21-22Lev 26:36Psa 14:5Psa 53:5Gen 37:28 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying, Pro 29:25 ‘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. Eph 4:32Mat 6:14-15Gen 45:4-5Gen 45:8Gen 49:25Luk 17:3-4Pro 28:13Psa 21:11 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.” Gen 37:7-11Gen 27:29Gen 42:6Gen 44:14Gen 45:3 Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? Rom 12:19Gen 30:2Gen 45:52Ki 5:7Heb 10:30Deu 32:35Job 34:19-29Mat 14:27 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. Rom 8:28Psa 119:71Gen 45:5-8Gen 37:18-20Act 2:23Psa 105:16-17Act 3:13-15Act 3:26 Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. Gen 47:121Pe 3:9Gen 45:10-111Th 5:15Isa 40:2Mat 5:44Mat 6:14Rom 12:20-21
Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years. Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees. Num 32:39Gen 30:3Job 42:16Gen 48:19Jos 17:1Num 32:33Psa 128:6Gen 49:12 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.” Exo 3:16-17Gen 26:3Gen 35:12Gen 28:13Gen 46:4Gen 48:21Gen 13:17Gen 15:18 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” Jos 24:32Exo 13:19Act 7:16Gen 47:29-31Heb 11:22Gen 50:5 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Gen 47:28Gen 47:9Gen 50:2-3Gen 50:22Jos 24:29