Genesis (American Standard Version, 1901) · 72 of 73 · tr. American Standard Version (1901)
49:33-50:19
[49:33] And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
[50:1] And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
[50:2] And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
[50:3] And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.
[50:4] And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
[50:5] 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. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
[50:6] And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
[50:7] And 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,
[50:8] and all the house of Joseph, 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.
[50:9] And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
[50:10] And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
[50:11] 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 name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
[50:12] And his sons did unto him according 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 burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
[50:14] And 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.
[50:15] And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
[50:16] And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
[50:17] So shall ye say unto Joseph, 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 God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
[50:18] And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.
[50:19] And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Ancestor Venerationpraxis
Ritual maintenance of relationship with the dead as ongoing presences whose favour is cultivated and whose offence is propitiated. Shinto uji-gami and obon, Norse disir and the alfablot, Celtic samhain and the feast for the deceased, Roman lares and parentalia, Chinese ancestor rites, Vedic śrāddha. Practice-coded rather than belief-coded: distinct from soul_migration (cosmological doctrine of soul-transmigration) and theosis_deification (deification trajectory); ancestor_veneration centres the living's ongoing ritual obligation to the dead.
The insistence on burial in the family cave of Machpelah—where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Rebekah rest—implies an ongoing relationship with the dead as a continuing community, though the passage focuses on the funeral act rather than sustained ritual obligation.
All passages →Contritionsoteriology
Penitential sorrow for sin as the first movement of the soul's healing — Julian's first of three medicines ('by contrition we are made clean'), the Christian compunction tradition, Sufi tawba, Greek metanoia, Hebrew teshuvah; the wound of sorrow that turns bitterness into hope of mercy. Distinct from self_examination (the diagnostic practice), rejection_of_hypocrisy (critique of others' form), and dark_night (imposed aridity): contrition is the soul's own penitent turning.
Joseph's brothers explicitly express penitential sorrow for their sin, asking him to forgive 'the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil,' which is a clear instance of contrition as the first movement toward healing.
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