 1 Joseph fell on his father and wept and kissed him. 2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father so they embalmed Israel. 3 40 days were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. Then the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days. 4 When the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh saying, If I have found grace in your eyes, I ask you to speak to Pharaoh saying, 5 My father made me swear saying, When I die, bury me in the grave that I have dug in the land of Canaan. Therefore let me go now to bury my father and I will come again. 6 Pharaoh said, Go and bury your father according as he made you swear. 7 So Joseph went to bury his father and all the servants of Pharaoh went with him, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 All the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's house left their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. 9 Both chariots and horsemen went with him. And it was a very great company. 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the grain floor of thorns, and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. Therefore they called its name, Meadow of Egypt beyond Jordan. 12 His sons did to him according as he commanded them. 13 For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah that Abraham bought with the field for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went with him. 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph may hate us and will certainly repay us for all the evil that we did to him. 16 So they sent a message to Joseph saying, Your father commanded before he died saying, 17 Say to Joseph, please lift the rebellion of your brothers and their sin. For they did evil to you. Please lift the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18 His brothers fell down before his face and said, Behold, we are your servants. 19 Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God? 20 But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save a great many people alive. 21 Now do not fear. I will nourish you and your little children. And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts. 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his father's house, and Joseph lived 110 years. 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up on Joseph's knees. 24 Joseph said to his brothers, I now die. But God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land into the land that He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you and you shall carry my bones from here. 26 So Joseph died, being 110 years old. Then they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
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