Genesis 50

Question 1

Genesis 50:1

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Genesis 50:2

Answer 2

Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,

Question 3

Genesis 50:3

Answer 3

taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Question 4

Genesis 50:4

Answer 4

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,

Question 5

Genesis 50:5

Answer 5

My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”

Question 6

Genesis 50:6

Answer 6

Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

Question 7

Genesis 50:7

Answer 7

So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him - the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt -

Question 8

Genesis 50:8

Answer 8

besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

Question 9

Genesis 50:9

Answer 9

Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.

Question 10

Genesis 50:10

Answer 10

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.

Question 11

Genesis 50:11

Answer 11

When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.

Question 12

Genesis 50:12

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Genesis 50:13

Answer 13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.

Question 14

Genesis 50:14

Answer 14

After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.

Question 15

Genesis 50:15

Answer 15

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”

Question 16

Genesis 50:16

Answer 16

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died:

Question 17

Genesis 50:17

Answer 17

This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

Question 18

Genesis 50:18

Answer 18

His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.

Question 19

Genesis 50:19

Answer 19

But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

Question 20

Genesis 50:20

Answer 20

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

Question 21

Genesis 50:21

Answer 21

So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.

Question 22

Genesis 50:22

Answer 22

Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years

Question 23

Genesis 50:23

Answer 23

and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.

Question 24

Genesis 50:24

Answer 24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Question 25

Genesis 50:25

Answer 25

And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Question 26

Genesis 50:26

Answer 26

So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.