1. Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
2. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3. Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
4. When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5. ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
6. Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
7. Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8. All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9. There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
10. They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.