Genesis 50:1-13

Genesis 50:1-13

[1] And Joseph  fell  upon his father's  face,  and wept  upon him, and kissed  him. [2] And Joseph  commanded  his servants  the physicians  to embalm  his father:  and the physicians  embalmed  Israel.  [3] And forty  days  were fulfilled  the days  of those which are embalmed:  mourned  for him threescore and ten  days.  [4] And when the days  of his mourning  were past,  Joseph  spake  unto the house  of Pharaoh,  saying,  If now I have found  grace  in your eyes,  speak,  I pray you, in the ears  of Pharaoh,  saying,  [5] My father  made me swear,  saying,  Lo,  I die:  in my grave  which I have digged  for me 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  wherefore the name of it  was called  Abelmizraim,  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.