Listening A1: Genesis Chapter 1 - Genesis 50

When the days of crying for his father ended, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's house.

He said, If you are kind to me now, please tell Pharaoh this.

My father made me promise before he died.

He said, I am going to die.

He told me, In the grave I dug in Canaan, please bury me there.

Let me go up now and bury my father, and I will come back.

Pharaoh said, Go up and bury your father, just as he made you promise.

Joseph went up to bury his father.

With him went all Pharaoh's servants, the old men of his house, and all the old men of the land of Egypt.

All Joseph's house, his brothers, and his father's house went up with him.

They left only the little children and their sheep and cows in Goshen.

Many carts with horses went up with him, and it was a very big group.

They came to Atad, the place where people beat grain, on the other side of the Jordan.

There they cried a lot, and they were very sad.

He made seven days of sad time for his father.

The people of the land, the Canaanites, saw the sad time at the place of Atad.

They said, This is a very heavy sad time for the Egyptians.

So they called the place Abel-mizraim which is on the other side of the Jordan.

His sons did what he told them.

His sons carried him into Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah.

Abraham bought this field with the cave for a burial place from Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.

Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who went up to bury his father.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Maybe Joseph will hate us and give us back all the bad things we did to him.

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father told us before he died.

Say to Joseph, Please forgive your brothers and their sin because they did bad to you.

Now we pray you, forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.

Joseph cried when they spoke to him.

His brothers went and fell down before him, and they said, We are your servants.

Joseph said to them, Do not fear; am I God?

You wanted to do bad to me, but God wanted it for good.

God did it to save many people alive, as you see today.

So now do not fear.

I will feed you and your little ones.

He comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

Joseph lived in Egypt with his father's family.

Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

Joseph saw the children of the children of Ephraim.

The children of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.

Joseph said to his brothers, I will die soon.

God will visit you and bring you out of this land to the land he promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Joseph made the people of Israel promise, God will visit you, and you will take my bones with you when you go out.

So Joseph died at one hundred ten years old.

They wrapped his body, and he was put in a box in Egypt.