1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,
and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph
spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying: 'If now I have found favour in your
eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying:
5 My father made me swear, saying: Lo, I die; in my grave
which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now
therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come back.'
6 And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as
he made thee swear.'
7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the
land of Egypt,
8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his
father's house; only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they
left in the land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and
it was a very great company.
10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is
beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and
he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw
the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said: 'This is a grievous mourning to
the Egyptians.' Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is
beyond the Jordan.
12 And his sons did unto him according 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, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of
Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and
all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all
the evil which we did unto him.'
16 And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father
did command before he died, saying:
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the
transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil.
And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the G-d of
thy father.' And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face;
and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'
19 And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the
place of G-d?
20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but G-d meant it
for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your
little ones.' And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and
Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation;
the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but G-d will
surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He
swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying:
'G-d will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.'
26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And
they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.