¹Joseph fell over the face of his father, and wept over him, and kissed him.

²Joseph commanded his slaves, those who heal, to embalm his father; and those who heal embalmed Israel.

³Forty days were filled for him, for so the days of embalming are filled; and Egypt wept for him seventy days.

⁴The days of his weeping passed, and Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

⁵My father made me swear, saying, ‘Look, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ So now, please let me go up and bury my father, and let me return.”

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

⁷Joseph went up to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

⁸and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and the house of his father; only their children, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.

⁹Both chariots and horsemen went up with him, and the camp was very numerous.

¹⁰They came as far as the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the other side of the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and heavy lament; and he made a mourning of seven days for his father.

¹¹The Canaanite who dwelled in the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and said, “This is a heavy mourning for Egypt.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is on the other side of the Jordan.

¹²His sons did so for him, as he had commanded them.

¹³His sons carried him to 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 grave, from Ephron the Hittite, facing Mamre.

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

¹⁵The brothers of Joseph saw that their father had died, and said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and surely repays us all the evil that we dealt out to him?”

¹⁶They charged Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,

¹⁷‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “Please, carry away the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they dealt out evil to you.” ’ And now, please carry away the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

¹⁸His brothers also went and fell before him, and said, “Look, we are your slaves.”

¹⁹Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?”

²⁰And you reckoned evil against me; but God reckoned it for good, in order to do as on this day, to keep alive a numerous people.

²¹So now, do not be afraid; I myself will sustain you and your children.” And he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

²²Joseph dwelled in Egypt, he and the house of his father; and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

²³Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; also the children of Machir son of Manasseh were born on the knees of Joseph.

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

²⁵Joseph had the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.”

²⁶And Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.