These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 50
Tanakh 26 verses
- 1 And fell upon his father’s , and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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And commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed .
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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
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And when the days of weeping for him were past, spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: ‘If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:
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- 5 My father made me swear, saying: Lo, I die; in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of , there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come back.’
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And Pharaoh said: ‘Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.’
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And went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of ,
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and all the house of , and his brethren, and his father’s house; only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.
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And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the , and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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- 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said: ‘This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.’ Wherefore the of it was called -mizraim, which is beyond the .
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And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them.
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For his sons carried him into the land of , and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre.
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- 14 And returned into , he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
- 15 And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: ‘It may be that will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.’
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And they sent a message unto , saying: ‘Thy father did command before he died, saying:
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So shall ye say unto : Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the of thy father.’ And wept when they spoke unto him.
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Galatians 6:10 Matthew 6:12 Galatians 6:16 Luke 17:3-4 Genesis 42:21-24 Job 33:27-28 Psalm 21:11 Proverbs 28:13 Genesis 45:8 Genesis 50:20 Matthew 6:14-15 Genesis 45:4-5 Matthew 10:42 James 5:16 Mark 10:41 Philemon 1:8-20 Colossians 3:12-13 Ephesians 4:32 Genesis 49:25 Genesis 31:42 Matthew 18:35 Matthew 25:40 -
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And his brethren also went and fell down before his ; and they said: ‘Behold, we are thy bondmen.’
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And said unto them: ‘Fear not; for am I in the place of ?
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- 20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to much people alive.
- 21 Now therefore ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.’ And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
- 22 And dwelt in , he, and his father’s house; and lived a hundred and ten years.
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And saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of were born upon Joseph’s knees.
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And said unto his brethren: ‘I die; but will surely you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to , to , and to .’
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Genesis 26:3 Genesis 35:12 Genesis 48:21 Genesis 46:4 Exodus 3:16-17 Genesis 28:13 Genesis 15:18 Genesis 13:17 Genesis 13:15 Genesis 15:7 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 15:14-16 Genesis 17:8 Exodus 33:1 Deuteronomy 1:8 Genesis 21:1 Job 30:23 Ecclesiastes 12:5 Hebrews 11:22 Genesis 50:5 Hebrews 9:27 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Romans 5:12 Deuteronomy 6:10 Exodus 4:31 Numbers 32:11 Genesis 3:19 -
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And took an oath of the children of , saying: ‘ will surely you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.’
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So died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in .
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