Genesis 50:4

And, when the days of weeping for him were passed, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying,—If I pray you, I have found favour in your eyes, speak ye I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh saying:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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,

In Context

3And they fulfilled for him forty days, for so, are they wont to fulfil the days of the embalmed,—and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

5My father, made me swear saying,—Lo! I, am about to die,—in my grave which I digged for myself in the land of Canaan, there, shalt thou bury me. Now, therefore, let me go up, I pray thee and bury my father, and return.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:3and said,—O My Lord! if, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, do not I pray thee pass on from thy servant.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:2-7

The Burial of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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