Genesis 50:1

1 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:1 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
English Standard Version (ESV)
1 Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
New Living Translation (NLT)
1 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
The Message Bible (MSG)
1 Joseph threw himself on his father, wept over him, and kissed him.
American Standard Version (ASV)
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
1 Joseph threw himself on his father, cried over him, and kissed him.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
1 Then Joseph, leaning over his father's face, wept and kissed him.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
1 Joseph threw himself on his father's body. He sobbed over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:1 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 50:1

And Joseph fell upon his father's face
Laid his own face to the cold face and pale cheeks of his dead father, out of his tender affection for him, and grief at parting with him; this shows that Joseph had been present from the time his father sent for him, and all the while he had been blessing the tribes, and giving orders about his funeral:

and wept upon him;
which to do for and over the dead is neither unlawful nor unbecoming, provided it is not carried to excess, as the instances of David, Christ, and others show:

and kissed him;
taking his farewell of him, as friends used to do, when parting and going a long journey, as death is. This was practised by Heathens, who had a notion that the soul went out of the body by the mouth, and they in this way received it into themselves: so Augustus Caesar died in the kisses of Livia, and Drusius in the embraces and kisses of Caesar F23. Joseph no doubt at this time closed the eyes of his father also, as it is said he should, and as was usual; see ( Genesis 46:4 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F23 Vid. Kirchman. de Funer. Rom. l. 1. c. 5.

Genesis 50:1 In-Context

1 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,
3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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,
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.’ ”

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Genesis 29:11; S Genesis 46:4
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