The Book of Genesis-Verse by Verse

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Genesis 49:24 (KJV) But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel

 

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Genesis 49:25 (KJV) Even by 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:

 

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Genesis 49:26 (KJV) 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.

 

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Genesis 49:27 (KJV) Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

 

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Genesis 49:28 (KJV) All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

 

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Genesis 49:29 (KJV) 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 is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

 

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Genesis 49:30 (KJV) In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

 

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Genesis 49:31 (KJV) There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

 

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Genesis 49:32 (KJV) The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

 

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Genesis 49:33 (KJV) 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.

 

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Genesis 50:1 (KJV) And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

 

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Genesis 50:2 (KJV) And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

 

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Genesis 50:3 (KJV) 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.

 

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Genesis 50:4 (KJV) 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,

 

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Genesis 50:5 (KJV) 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.

 

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Genesis 50:6 (KJV) And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

 

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Genesis 50:7 (KJV) 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,

 

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Genesis 50:8 (KJV) 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.

 

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Genesis 50:9 (KJV) And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

 

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Genesis 50:10 (KJV) And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.