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And it came to pass that Jacob spoke unto his sons, and he did charge them and said unto them: I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron, the Hittite,
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In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which our father, Abraham boughta with the field of Ephron, the Hittite, for a possession of a burying place.
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For there they buried Abraham our father, and Sarah our mother, his wife;
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And there too they buried Isaac our father, and Rebekah our mother, his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
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And when Jacob had made an end of commandinga his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people;
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And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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¶ And Jacob had lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; Jacob grew in YHVHa to the hundred forty and seventh degreeb.
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And it came to pass that Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Jacob.
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¶ And after forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
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¶ And it came to pass that when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:
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My father made me swear, saying: Lo, I die; in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me.
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Now, therefore, I pray thee, let me go up and bury my father; and I will come back here again.
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And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
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¶ And it came to pass that Joseph 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 Egypt,
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And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; 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 Jordan; and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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¶ And it came to pass that 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 name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
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And the sons of Jacob did unto him according as he commanded them;
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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 for a possession of a burying place of Ephron, the Hittite, before Mamre.
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¶ And it came to pass that Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
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¶ And it came to pass that when the brethren of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said: Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
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And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying: Thy father did command before he died, saying:
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So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil;
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And now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the Elohima of thy father.
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¶ And it came to pass that Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: Behold, we be thy servants.
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And Joseph said unto them: Fear not; for am I in the place of Elohim?
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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but Ha’Elohima meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive;
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Now, therefore, fear ye not; I will nourish you and your little ones.
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And it came to pass that Joseph comforted his brothers and he spoke kindly unto them.