in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my
father, and I will come again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made
thee swear.
7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh,
the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 And all the house of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the
land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a
great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11 And when the
inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
12
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
13 For 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
for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned into
Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his
father.
15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure
hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger
unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph,
Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now,
we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
spake unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we
be thy servants.
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
20 But as for you,
ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much
people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them,
and spake kindly unto them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived
an hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children
also of Machir the son Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his
brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, being an hundred
and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.