Mourning and Burial for Jacob
And Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And Egypt wept for him seventy days.
And when the days of weeping for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh: “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak, please, in the ears of Pharaoh:
my father made me swear, saying, ‘Look, I am dying. In my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan — there you shall bury me.’ And now, let me go up, please, and bury my father — and I will return.”
And Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
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,
and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, and their sheep and their cattle, they left in the land of Goshen.
And chariots and horsemen also went up with him — and the company was very great.
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and heavy lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days.
And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and they said, “This is a heavy mourning for Egypt.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is across the Jordan.
And his sons did for him just as he had commanded them:
his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field Abraham bought as a burial holding from Ephron the Hittite, facing Mamre.
And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Joseph Comforts His Brothers
And Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, and they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us, and pays us back in full for all the evil we did to him?”
And they sent word to Joseph: “Your father commanded before his death:
‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: Please, forgive, I beg you, the crime of your brothers and their sin, for they did you evil.’ And now, please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept as they spoke to him.
And his brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, “Look — we are your slaves.”
And Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
You — you planned evil against me. God planned it for good, to do what this day has shown: to keep many people alive.
And now, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them, and spoke to their hearts.
The Death of Joseph
And Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his father’s house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
And Joseph saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation; also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
And 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 that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear: “God will surely visit you — and you shall carry my bones up from here.”
And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.