50 ¹ Then Joseph threw himself upon his father, weeping and kissing his face. 50 ² He ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel, and they did so, 50 ³ finishing the task in forty days, which was the usual time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned him for seventy days;

50 ⁴ and then, when the days of mourning for Israel were over, Joseph approached members of Pharaoh's household and said, 'If I can count on your goodwill, then speak for me to Pharaoh; tell him that 50 ⁵ my father made me take an oath, saying, "I am dying. Bury me in the grave that I bought Or dug for myself in Canaan." Ask him to let me go up and bury my father, and afterwards I will return.' 50 ⁶ Pharaoh answered, 'Go and bury your father, as he has made you swear to do.' 50 ⁷ So Joseph went to bury his father, accompanied by all Pharaoh's courtiers, the elders of his household, and all the elders of Egypt, 50 ⁸ together with all Joseph's own household, his brothers, and his father's household; only their dependants, with the flocks and herds, were left in Goshen. 50 ⁹ He took with him chariots and horsemen ; they were a very great company. 50 ¹⁰ When they came to the threshing-floor of Atad beside the river Jordan, they raised a loud and bitter lament; and there Joseph observed seven days' mourning for his father. 50 ¹¹ When the Canaanites who lived there saw this mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, they said, 'How bitterly the Egyptians are mourning!'; accordingly they named the place beside the Jordan Abel-mizraim That is Mourning (or Meadow) of Egypt. 50 ¹² Thus Jacob's sons did what he had told them to do. 50 ¹³ They took him to Canaan and buried him in the cave on the plot of land at Machpelah, the land which Abraham had bought as a burial-place from Ephron the Hittite, to the east of Mamre.

50 ¹⁴ Then, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him.