GENESIS L. VAYECHEE.
And when the inhabitants of the land,
the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the thrashing-floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians ; where- fore the name of it was called Abel-mizrayim," 1 which is beyond Jordan."'
And "his sons did unto him according
as he had commanded them ;
And his sons carried him into the land
of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which fiek? Abraham 1:)ought for a possession, as a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
And Joseph returned unto Egypt, he,
and his brothers, and all that were gone up with him to bury his father, after he had Ijuried his father.
And when Joseph's brothers saw that
their father was dead, they said, Peradven- ture Joseph may now hate us; and then he would certamly requite us all the evil which we have done unto him.
And they sent word unto Joseph, say-
ing, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
So shall ye say unto Joseph, forgive,
I pray thee, the trespass of thy brothers, and their sm ; for evil have they done unto thee : and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father ; and Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
And his brothers also went and fell
down before him ; and they said, Behold, we will be thy servants.
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not ;
for am I in the place of God ?
But as for you, though ye thought evil
against me, God meant it unto good; in order to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save alive a numerous people.*
Now therefore fear ye not, I vnW sup-
port you, and your little ones; and he com- forted thi'm, and spoke kindly unto them.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and
his father's house ; and Joseph lived one hun- dred and ten years.*
And Joseph saw of Epliraim children
of the third generation ; the children al.so of Machir the son of Menasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
And Joseph said unto his brothers, I
shall die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And Joseph caused the children of
Israel to swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and then shall ye carry up my bones from here.
So Joseph died, being one hundred and
ten years old ; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egyjit. Haphtorah in 1 Kings ii. 1 to 12. ' " Mourning of Egypt."
- According to R. Joseph Schwartz this means the
ancient bed of the river to the south of the Dead Sea, as Joseph did not cross the present Jordan to the north of that lake. Note.— Haphtorah for the Sabbath, if on the day before New Moon, is in 1 Samuel xx. 18 to 42. Reading for Maphterc for Sabbath and New Moon, Numbers xxviii. 9 to 15. Haphtorah for Sabbath and New Moon in Isaiah Ivi. 1 to 24. Haphtorah for Sabbath Chanukkah in Zcchanah u. 14 to iv. 7. 1-1 Haptorah for the second Sabbath Chanukkah in 1 Kings vii. 40 to 50. When either of the above is read on any Sabbath, the usual weekly Haphtorah is omitted. The same is the case with all other occasional Haphtorotli, which usually take the place of the regular ones. ' This construction is according to Arnheira, rendering ityN and niB'n simply with " which field." He also ren- ders NiDO 'J3 ^}f with "east of Mamr6."
