1Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

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

2Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

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

3Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

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

4When 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,

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

5'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.'"

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

6Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

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Genesis 48:21, Genesis 48:21

7Joseph 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,

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Genesis 14:16, Genesis 14:16

8all 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.

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

9There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

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

10They 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.

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

11When 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.

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

12His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

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

13for 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.

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

14Joseph returned into Egypt-he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

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15When 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."

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

16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

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Proverbs 29:25, Proverbs 29:25

17'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.

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

18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

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

19Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

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

20As 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.

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

21Now therefore do not be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

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

22Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

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23Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.

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

24Joseph 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."

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

25Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

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

26So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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Genesis 50:22, Genesis 47:9, Genesis 47:28, Genesis 50:2, Genesis 50:3