Genesis 50:1-13

1Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him. 2Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians 1embalmed Israel. 3Now forty days were 2required for 3it, for 4such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians 5wept for him seventy days.

4When the days of 6mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak 7to Pharaoh, saying, 5‘8My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave 9which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now then, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’” 6Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

7So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. 9Chariots with teams of horses also went up with him; and it was a very great company. 10When they came to the 10threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they 11mourned there with a very great and 12sorrowful lamentation; and he 13observed seven days of mourning for his father. 11Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at 14the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a 15grievous 16mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named 17Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12And so his sons did for him as he had commanded them; 13for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in 18the cave of the field of Machpelah opposite Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a 19burial site from Ephron the Hittite.