go to all translations

Thematic Bible

Themes in Genesis 50
LEB

Themes in Genesis 50

Genesis 50:1

Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:2

And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50:3

Forty days {were required for it}, for thus [are] the days {required for} embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Genesis 50:4

When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,

Genesis 50:5

'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I [am about] to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan--there you must bury me." So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.'"

Genesis 50:6

Then Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father as he made you swear."

Genesis 50:7

So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him,

Genesis 50:8

with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50:9

And there also went up with him chariots and horsemen. The company [was] very great.

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which [was] beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:11

And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, "This [is] a severe mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which [is] beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50:12

Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them.

Genesis 50:13

And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.

Genesis 50:14

And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

Genesis 50:15

And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father [was] dead, they said, "It may be [that] Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him."

Genesis 50:16

So they sent [word] to Joseph saying, "Your father commanded [us] before his death, saying,

Genesis 50:17

"Thus you must say to Joseph, 'O, please now forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.' So now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Genesis 50:18

Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, "Behold, we [are] your servants."

Genesis 50:19

Then Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for [am] I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:20

As for you, you planned evil against me, [but] God planned it for good, in order to do this--to keep many people alive--as [it is] today.

Genesis 50:21

So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and {spoke kindly} to them.

Genesis 50:22

So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.

Genesis 50:24

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I [am about] to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Genesis 50:25

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Doctrinal Statement / Privacy Policy / Use of Pictures / Donate / Contact Us
© Copyright [2011 - 2024] Knowing-Jesus.com - All Rights Reserved