1And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

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Genesis 46:4, Genesis 46:4, Ephesians 6:4, 2 Kings 13:14, Acts 8:2

2And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

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2 Chronicles 16:14, Genesis 50:26, 2 Chronicles 16:14, Genesis 50:26, Mark 16:1

3And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

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Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, Genesis 50:10

4And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:

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Esther 4:2, Genesis 18:3, Esther 4:2, Genesis 18:3

5For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.

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Isaiah 22:16, 2 Chronicles 16:14, Isaiah 22:16, 2 Chronicles 16:14, Matthew 27:60

6And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

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Genesis 48:21, Genesis 48:21

7So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

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Genesis 14:16, Genesis 14:16

8And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

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Exodus 10:26, Exodus 10:8, Exodus 10:9, Numbers 32:24, Numbers 32:27

9He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

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Genesis 46:29, Exodus 14:7, Exodus 14:28, Genesis 41:43, Acts 8:2

10And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

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Acts 8:2, Job 2:13, Acts 8:2, Job 2:13, 2 Samuel 1:17

11And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

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Genesis 10:15, Genesis 10:19, Genesis 24:6, Genesis 10:15, Genesis 10:19

12So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

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Genesis 49:29, Genesis 49:32, Acts 7:16, Genesis 49:29, Genesis 49:32

13And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.

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Genesis 23:16, Genesis 23:18, Genesis 49:29, Genesis 49:31, Acts 7:16

14And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.

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15Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

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Proverbs 28:1, Proverbs 28:1, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 27:42, Leviticus 26:36

16And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,

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Proverbs 29:25, Proverbs 29:25

17That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

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Matthew 6:14, Matthew 6:15, Matthew 6:14, Matthew 6:15, Genesis 49:25

18And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.

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Genesis 37:7, Genesis 37:11, Genesis 37:7, Genesis 37:11, Genesis 42:6

19And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?

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Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, Genesis 45:5, Genesis 30:2, Genesis 45:5

20You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

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Romans 8:28, Romans 8:28, Psalms 119:71, Psalms 119:71, Genesis 45:5

21Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

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Genesis 47:12, Genesis 47:12, 1 Peter 3:9, 1 Peter 3:9, Genesis 45:10

22And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house; and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were born on Joseph's knees.

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23After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Numbers 32:39, Numbers 32:39, Genesis 30:3, Job 42:16, Genesis 30:3

24And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:

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Genesis 35:12, Exodus 3:16, Exodus 3:17, Genesis 35:12, Exodus 3:16

25And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

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Exodus 13:19, Joshua 24:32, Exodus 13:19, Joshua 24:32, Genesis 47:29