Genesis 50

And Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

Then Joseph told the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

and it took forty days, which is how long embalming takes. And the Egyptians mourned him seventy days.

When the days of mourning were over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's household, “If I've found favour with you, speak to Pharaoh for me. Say this:

‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, “I'm about to die. Bury me in the grave I dug for myself in Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father, and then I'll come back.’”

And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

So Joseph went up to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials went with him — the elders of his household and all the elders of Egypt —

along with all of Joseph's household and his brothers and his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

Chariots and horsemen went up with him too. It was a very large company.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they mourned loudly and bitterly, and Joseph held a seven-day mourning ceremony for his father.

When the Canaanites living there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That's why the place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.

So Jacob's sons did as he'd told them.

They carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.

After burying his father, Joseph went back to Egypt, with his brothers and everyone who'd gone up with him to bury his father.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong we did him?”

So they sent word to Joseph. “Your father left these instructions before he died:

‘This is what you're to say to Joseph. Please forgive your brothers for the wrong they did you, and the sin they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when their message came to him.

Then his brothers came and threw themselves down in front of him. “We're your slaves,” they said.

But Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid. Am I in God's place?

You meant it for harm, but God meant it for good, to bring about what's happening now — the saving of many lives.

So don't be afraid. I'll provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.

So Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father's household. And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

He saw Ephraim's children to the third generation, and the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph's knees.

And Joseph said to his brothers, “I'm about to die. But God will surely come to you and take you up out of this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.”

And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. “God will surely come to you,” he said, “and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

So Joseph died at a hundred and ten. And they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.