[1] Joseph fell on his father`s face, wept on him, and kissed him. [2]
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and
the physicians embalmed Israel. [3] Forty days were fulfilled for him, for
that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him
for seventy days. [4] When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph
spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your
eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, [5] `My father made me
swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug
for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and
bury my father, and I will come again.`" [6] Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury
your father, just like he made you swear." [7] Joseph went up to bury his
father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his
house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, [8] all the house of Joseph,
his brothers, and his father`s house. Only their little ones, their flocks,
and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. [9] There went up with
him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. [10] They came
to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they
lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father
seven days. [11] When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by
the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is
beyond the Jordan. [12] His sons did to him just as he commanded them, [13]
for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the
cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a
possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. [14]
Joseph returned into Egypt - he, and his brothers, and all that went up
with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. [15] When
Joseph`s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be
that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil
which we did to him. [16] They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your
father commanded before he died, saying, [17] "So will you tell Joseph,
`Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin,
because they did evil to you.` Now, please forgive the disobedience of the
servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
[18] His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said,
"Behold, we are your servants." [19] Joseph said to them, "Don`t be afraid,
for am I in the place of God? [20] As for you, you meant evil against me,
but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save
many people alive. [21] Now therefore don`t be afraid. I will nourish you
and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. [22]
Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father`s house. Joseph lived one hundred
ten years. [23] Joseph saw Ephraim`s children to the third generation. The
children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph`s knees.
[24] Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit
you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which 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 up my
bones from here." [26] So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and
they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
