1 Joseph threw himself on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him.
2 Then Joseph ordered his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 They took forty full days for it, since that is the time needed for embalming, and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4 When the days of weeping for him were over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household: "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put this to Pharaoh for me:
5 'My father made me take an oath, saying, "I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." So now please let me go up and bury my father; then I will come back.'"
6 Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear."
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all Pharaoh's officials, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 as well as all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their little ones and their flocks and herds were left behind in the region of Goshen.
9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him; it was a very large company.
10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, beyond the Jordan, they raised a loud and bitter lament there, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "The Egyptians are holding a solemn mourning." That is why the place beyond the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.
12 So Jacob's sons did for him just what he had commanded them.
13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
14 After burying his father, Joseph went back to Egypt, together with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
15 Now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers said, "Suppose Joseph turns hostile toward us and repays us in full for all the evil we did to him!"
16 So they sent word to Joseph: "Before he died your father left these instructions:
17 'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you, please forgive your brothers' offense and their sin, for they did you wrong.' So now please forgive the offense of the servants of your father's God." Joseph wept when their message came to him.
18 Then his brothers came themselves, threw themselves down before him, and said, "Here we are, your servants."
19 But Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
20 You planned evil against me, but God planned it for good, so as to keep many people alive, as is happening this day.
21 So do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So he comforted them and spoke to their hearts.
22 Joseph remained in Egypt, along with his father's household. Joseph lived a hundred and ten years
23 and saw Ephraim's descendants to the third generation. The children of Manasseh's son Machir were also born on Joseph's knees.
24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and bring you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
25 And Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath: "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from here."
26 So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.