1. Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.
2. Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3. Forty days were required for him, for such is the time required for those who are embalmed. Then the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4. When the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh, saying,
5. ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father, and then I will return.’ ”
6. Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
7. Joseph went up to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him too, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8. all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s household. They left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
9. Both the chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very great company.
10. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned with a great and very sorrowful lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
11. When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
12. So his sons did with him just as he had commanded them.