Bereshet (Genesis) - Chapter 50

50:1 Yoseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him. 50:2 Yoseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisrael. 50:3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

50:4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Yoseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favour in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5 '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.'"

50:6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

50:7 Yoseph 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, 50:8 all the house of Yoseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 50:9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. 50:11 When 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 Yordan. 50:12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, 50:13 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 burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 50:14 Yoseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

50:15 When Yoseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Yoseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him." 50:16 They sent a message to Yoseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying, 50:17 'You shall tell Yoseph, "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 God of your father." Yoseph wept when they spoke to him. 50:18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." 50:19 Yoseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 50:20 As 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. 50:21 Now therefore do not be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

50:22 Yoseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Yoseph lived one hundred ten years. 50:23 Yoseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Yoseph's knees. 50:24 Yoseph 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 Ya'aqub." 50:25 Yoseph took an oath of the B'nai Yisrael, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." 50:26 So Yoseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Notes:

1:1 God - Ancient Hebrew "Alhym" (pronounced: Ahl-heem) Masoretic: "Elohim" (pronounced: Eh-low-eem), Aramaic: "Alaha" (pronounced: "Ah-la-hah", others and Syrc: "Ah-low-ha")

1:1 1:1 Another translation of the Assembly from Hebrew reads for verse 1: "In the ancient times YHWH began creating the heavens and the earth. For the earth had existed with nothing and was empty, and darkness was spread upon the face of the deep; and a wind from before YHWH began to blow upon the face of the waters."

5:3 Aramaic Codex Yosip (350 CE) uses an older Hebrew-Aramaic text which indicates Adam was 230 instead of 130. At least twelve commentaries dating around the same time agree with Codex Yosip.

6:2 Nasraya text: "b'nai ravravaya"; Onqelos: "b'nai ravrevaya"; Leningrad Codex: "b'nai ha'elohim"; Common English versions: "sons of God"; Hebrew: "b'nai ha'elohim"

30:15 rape. or "force"