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So Joseph died at the age of 110. The Egyptians embalmed him, and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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highlighted Genesis 50:25 NLT

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.”

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highlighted Genesis 50:22 NLT

So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt. Joseph lived to the age of 110.

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highlighted Genesis 50:20 NLT

You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.

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highlighted Genesis 50:14 NLT

After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial.

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highlighted Genesis 50:13 NLT

They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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highlighted Genesis 50:12 NLT

So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them.

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highlighted Genesis 50:10 NLT

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.

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highlighted Genesis 50:7-8 NLT

So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.

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highlighted Genesis 50:6 NLT

Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.

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highlighted Genesis 50:3 NLT

The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.

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highlighted Genesis 50:1 NLT

Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

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highlighted Genesis 49:31-33 NLT

There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.

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highlighted Genesis 49:28 NLT

These are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said as he told his sons good-bye. He blessed each one with an appropriate message.

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highlighted Genesis 49:27 NLT

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”

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highlighted Genesis 49:22 NLT

“Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey, the foal of a wild donkey at a spring— one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.

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highlighted Genesis 49:24-25 NLT

But his bow remained taut, and his arms were strengthened by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.

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highlighted Genesis 49:26 NLT

May my fatherly blessings on you surpass the blessings of my ancestors, reaching to the heights of the eternal hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, who is a prince among his brothers.

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highlighted Genesis 49:21 NLT

“Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

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