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.
13. For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
14. 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. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us and will certainly pay us back for all the wrong we did to him.”