[1] And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing
him. [2] And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary
knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with
spices, and they did so. [3] And the forty days needed for making the body
ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for
seventy days. [4] And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph
said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these
words to Pharaoh: [5] My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am
dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land
of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place,
and I will come back again. [6] And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father
to rest, as you gave your oath to him. [7] So Joseph went up to put his
father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of
Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of
Egypt, [8] And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's
people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take
with them from the land of Goshen. [9] And carriages went up with him and
horsemen, a great army. [10] And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on
the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob,
with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days. [11]
And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor
of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians:
so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. [12] So
his sons did as he had given them orders to do: [13] For they took him into
the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of
Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from
Ephron the Hittite at Mamre. [14] And when his father had been put to rest,
Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.
[15] Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to
themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he
will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him. [16] So they
sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders,
saying, [17] You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers
be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure,
let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at
these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping. [18] Then his brothers went,
and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants. [19] And Joseph
said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? [20] As for you, it was in
your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation
of numbers of people, as you see today. [21] So now, have no fear: for I
will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with
kind words. [22] Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in
Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten. [23] And
Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees. [24] Then
Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will
keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave
by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. [25] Then Joseph made the
children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to
his word, and you are to take my bones away from here. [26] So Joseph came
to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body
ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
