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Genesis 50:11-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

13. And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the held for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre.

14. And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father.

15. Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

16. And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,

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