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# Genesis 50

Genesis 50 is chapter 50 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The mourning for Jacob, and his interment. Joseph's kindness towards his brethren. His death.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 50 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.
2. And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.
3. And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.
4. And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: “If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh.
5. For my father made me swear, saying: ‘See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.”
6. And Pharaoh said to him, “Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.”
7. So as he went up, all the elders of the house of Pharaoh went with him, along with every patriarch in the land of Egypt,
8. and the house of Joseph with his brothers, except their little ones and flocks and also the herds, which they left behind in the land of Goshen.
9. Likewise, he had in his company chariots and horsemen. And it became a crowd without restraint.
10. And they arrived at the threshing place of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan. There they spent seven full days celebrating the funeral rites with a great and vehement lamentation.
11. And when the inhabitants of the land of Canaan had seen this, they said, “This is a great Lamentation for the Egyptians.” And for this reason, the name of that place was called, “The Lamentation of Egypt.”
12. And so, the sons of Jacob did just as he had instructed them.
13. And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial, opposite Mamre.
14. And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brothers and all those of his company, having buried his father.
15. Now that he was dead, his brothers were afraid, and they said to one another: “Perhaps now he may remember the injury that he suffered and requite us for all the evil that we did to him.”
16. So they sent a message to him, saying: “Your father instructed us before he died,
17. that we should say these words to you from him: ‘I beg you to forget the wickedness of your brothers, and the sin and malice that they practiced against you.’ Likewise, we petition you to release the servants of the God of your father from this iniquity.” Hearing this, Joseph wept.
18. And his brothers went to him. And reverencing prostrate on the ground, they said, “We are your servants.”
19. And he answered them: “Do not be afraid. Are we able to resist the will of God?
20. You devised evil against me. But God turned it into good, so that he might exalt me, just as you presently discern, and so that he might bring about the salvation of many peoples.
21. Do not be afraid. I will pasture you and your little ones.” And he consoled them, and he spoke mildly and leniently.
22. And he lived in Egypt with all his father’s house; and he survived for one hundred and ten years. And he saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation. Likewise, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born onto Joseph’s knees.
23. After these things happened, he said to his brothers: “God will visit you after my death, and he will make you ascend from this land into the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
24. And when he had made them swear and had said, “God will visit you; carry my bones with you from this place,”
25. he died, having completed one hundred and ten years of his life. And having been embalmed with aromatics, he was laid to rest in a coffin in Egypt.

## Genesis 50 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quod cernens Joseph, ruit super faciem patris, flens et deosculans eum.
2. Præcepitque servis suis medicis ut aromatibus condirent patrem.
3. Quibus jussa explentibus, transierunt quadraginta dies: iste quippe mos erat cadaverum conditorum: flevitque eum Ægyptus septuaginta diebus.
4. Et expleto planctus tempore, locutus est Joseph ad familiam Pharaonis: Si inveni gratiam in conspectu vestro, loquimini in auribus Pharaonis:
5. eo quod pater meus adjuraverit me dicens: En morior: in sepulchro meo, quod fodi mihi in terra Chanaan, sepelies me. Ascendam igitur, et sepeliam patrem meum, ac revertar.
6. Dixitque ei Pharao: Ascende, et sepeli patrem tuum sicut adjuratus es.
7. Quo ascendente, ierunt cum eo omnes senes domus Pharaonis, cunctique majores natu terræ Ægypti:
8. domus Joseph cum fratribus suis, absque parvulis, et gregibus atque armentis, quæ dereliquerant in terra Gessen.
9. Habuit quoque in comitatu currus et equites: et facta est turba non modica.
10. Veneruntque ad Aream Atad, quæ sita est trans Jordanem: ubi celebrantes exequias planctu magno atque vehementi impleverunt septem dies.
11. Quod cum vidissent habitatores terræ Chanaan, dixerunt: Planctus magnus est iste Ægyptiis. Et idcirco vocatum est nomen loci illius, Planctus Ægypti.
12. Fecerunt ergo filii Jacob sicut præceperat eis:
13. et portantes eum in terram Chanaan, sepelierunt eum in spelunca duplici, quam emerat Abraham cum agro in possessionem sepulchri ab Ephron Hethæo, contra faciem Mambre.
14. Reversusque est Joseph in Ægyptum cum fratribus suis, et omni comitatu, sepulto patre.
15. Quo mortuo, timentes fratres ejus, et mutuo colloquentes: Ne forte memor sit injuriæ quam passus est, et reddat nobis omne malum quod fecimus,
16. mandaverunt ei dicentes: Pater tuus præcepit nobis antequam moreretur,
17. ut hæc tibi verbis illius diceremus: Obsecro ut obliviscaris sceleris fratrum tuorum, et peccati atque malitiæ quam exercuerunt in te: nos quoque oramus ut servis Dei patris tui dimittas iniquitatem hanc. Quibus auditis flevit Joseph.
18. Veneruntque ad eum fratres sui: et proni adorantes in terram, dixerunt: Servi tui sumus.
19. Quibus ille respondit: Nolite timere: num Dei possumus resistere voluntati?
20. Vos cogitastis de me malum: sed Deus vertit illud in bonum, ut exaltaret me, sicut in præsentiarum cernitis, et salvos faceret multos populos.
21. Nolite timere: ego pascam vos et parvulos vestros: consolatusque est eos, et blande ac leniter est locutus.
22. Et habitavit in Ægypto cum omni domo patris sui: vixitque centum decem annis. Et vidit Ephraim filios usque ad tertiam generationem. Filii quoque Machir filii Manasse nati sunt in genibus Joseph.
23. Quibus transactis, locutus est fratribus suis: Post mortem meam Deus visitabit vos, et ascendere vos faciet de terra ista ad terram quam juravit Abraham, Isaac et Jacob.
24. Cumque adjurasset eos atque dixisset: Deus visitabit vos, asportate ossa mea vobiscum de loco isto:
25. mortuus est, expletis centum decem vitæ suæ annis. Et conditus aromatibus, repositus est in loculo in Ægypto.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 312: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Jul 10, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Genesis 49:29-32; 50:15-26a

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).