1 ¶ Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were required for it; for that many days are required for embalming: and the Egyptians mourned for him for seventy days.

4 And when the days of weeping for him were over, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, If I have now found grace in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that,

5 My father made me swear, saying, I am about to die: bury me in the tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will return again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.

7 ¶ And Joseph went up to bury his father: and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father’s house: only they left their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, in the land of Goshen.

9 And there went with Joseph both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is west of Jordan.

12 Thus Jacob’s sons did to him as he had commanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought, along with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burial place.

14 And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all who went up with him to bury his father.

15 ¶ And when Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, perhaps Joseph will hate us, and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.

16 And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Your father commanded before he died, saying,

17 So shall you say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brothers, and their sin; for they did evil to you: and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 And his brothers also went and fell down before him; and they said, Behold, we are your servants.

19 And Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid: for am I in the place of God?

20 But as for you, you planned evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring about that many people should be kept alive, as they are to this day.

21 Now therefore do not be afraid: I will provide for you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to 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 brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I shall die: and God will certainly visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land which he promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you will carry up my bones from here.

26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.