BURIAL OF JACOB IN CANAAN

This chapter tells of the burial of Jacob in Canaan and the death and burial of Joseph in Egypt. Them is, therefore, a touch of sadness about this last chapter of Genesis.

We have already called attention to the emphasis put upon death in the Book of Genesis. God had told Adam. “. . . For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:17). Paul wrote later, “. . . so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Rom. 5:12).

The Book of Genesis is a full example of the fact of sin and the reality of death. It opens with God and man in the Garden of Eden and ends in a coffin in Egypt.

This book recounts the entrance of sin into the human family but also relates the faithfulness of God in providing a way of life for man.

Genesis 50:1-13 KJV

[1] And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

[2] And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

[3] And 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.

[4] And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake 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,

[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.

[6] And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

[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,

[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.

[9] And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

[10] And they came to the threshingfloor 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.

[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 Jordan.

[12] And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

[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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Genesis 50:1 KJV

And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:2 KJV

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:3 KJV

And 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.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:4 KJV

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake 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,

 

 

 

Genesis 50:5 KJV

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.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:6 KJV

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:7 KJV

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,

 

 

 

Genesis 50:8 KJV

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.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:9 KJV

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:10 KJV

And they came to the threshingfloor 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.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:11 KJV

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 Jordan.

 

 

 

Genesis 50:12 KJV

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

 

 

 

Genesis 50:13 KJV

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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

 

 

 

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