Genesis 50:1

CHAPTER L

Joseph bewails the death of his father, and commands the

physicians to embalm him, 1, 2.

The Egyptians mourn for him seventy days, 3.

Joseph begs permission from Pharaoh to accompany his father's

corpse to Canaan, 4, 5.

Pharaoh consents, 6.

Pharaoh's domestics and elders, the elders of Egypt, Joseph and

his brethren, with chariots, horsemen, c., form the funeral

procession, 7-9.

They come to the threshing-floor of Atad, and mourn there

seven days, 10.

The Canaanites call the place Abel-Mizraim, 11.

They bury Jacob in the cove of Machpelah, 12, 13.

Joseph returns to Egypt, 14.

His brethren, fearing his displeasure, send messengers to him to

entreat his forgiveness of past wrongs, 15-17.

They follow, and prostrate themselves before him, and offer to be

his servants, 18.

Joseph receives them affectionately, and assures them and theirs

of his care and protection, 19-21.

Joseph and his brethren dwell in Egypt, and he sees the third

generation of his children, 22, 23.

Being about to die, he prophecies the return of the children of

Israel from Egypt, 24,

and causes them to swear that they will carry his bones to Canaan, 25.

Joseph dies, aged one hundred and ten years is embalmed, and put

in a coffin in Egypt, 26.

NOTES ON CHAP. L

Verse Genesis 50:1. Joseph fell upon his father's face] Though this act appears to be suspended by the unnatural division of this verse from the preceding chapter, yet we may rest assured it was the immediate consequence of Jacob's death.