21 Naphtali isa hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22 Joseph isa fruitful bough, evena fruitful bough by a well; whosebranches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of
the mighty Godof Jacob; (from thence isthe shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Evenby the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee
with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts,
and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the
utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of
the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27 Benjamin shall ravin asa wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall
divide the spoil.
28 All these arethe twelve tribes of Israel: and this is itthat their father spake unto them,
and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with
my fathers in the cave that isin the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that isin the field of Machpelah, which isbefore Mamre, in the land of Canaan,
which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife;
and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that istherein wasfrom the children of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the
bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
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 isbeyond 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 isa grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abelmizraim, which isbeyond 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.
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.
15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will
peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died,
saying,
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their
sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of
the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we bethy
servants.
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for amI in the place of God?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; butGod meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it
isthis day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them,
and spake kindly unto them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten
years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the
son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of
this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye
shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, beingan hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put
in a coffin in Egypt.