⁴When the days of weeping for him were past , Joseph spoke to Pharaoh ’s staff, saying , “If now I have found favour 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 .’”

⁶Pharaoh said, “Go up , and bury your father, just like he made you swear .”

⁷Joseph 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 ,

⁸all 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 .

⁹Both chariots and horsemen went up with him . It was a very great company .

¹⁰They 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 .

¹¹When the inhabitants of the land , the Canaanites , saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said , “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians .” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan .

¹²His sons did to him just as he commanded them ,

¹³for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan , and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah , which Abraham bought with the field , as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite , near Mamre .

¹⁴Joseph returned into Egypt —he , and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

¹⁵When Joseph ’s brothers saw that their father was dead , they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us , and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him .”

¹⁶They sent a message to Joseph , saying, “Your father commanded before he died , saying,

¹⁷‘You shall tell Joseph , “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin , because they did evil to you .”’ Now , please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him .

¹⁸His brothers also went and fell down before his face ; and they said, “Behold , we are your servants .”

¹⁹Joseph said to them , “Don’t be afraid , for am I in the place of God?

²⁰As for you , you meant evil against me , but God meant it for good , to save many people alive , as is happening today .

²¹Now therefore don’t be afraid . I will provide for you and your little ones .” He comforted them , and spoke kindly to them .

²²Joseph lived in Egypt , he , and his father’s house . Joseph lived one hundred and ten years .

²³Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation . The children also of Machir , the son of Manasseh , were born on Joseph ’s knees .

²⁴Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying , but God will surely visit you , and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac , and to Jacob .”

²⁵Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel , saying, “God will surely visit you , and you shall carry up my bones from here .”

²⁶So Joseph died , being one hundred and ten years old , and they embalmed him , and he was put in a coffin in Egypt .