1. And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him.
2. And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
3. And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mounted for him seventy days.
4. And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:
5. For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.
6. And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8. And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.
9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was it great company.
10. And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.
11. And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.
12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.