Genesis 50:5–13

⁵‘When my father was near death, I made a promise to him that I would bury him in a cave in the land of Canaan, in a burial place that he cut out for himself. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will return.’ ”

⁶The king answered, “Keep your promise. Go and bury your father.”

⁷So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king’s officers, the elders of his court, and all the elders of Egypt went with Joseph. ⁸Everyone who lived with Joseph and his brothers went with him, as well as everyone who lived with his father. They left only their children, their flocks, and their herds in the land of Goshen. ⁹They went with Joseph in chariots and on horses. It was a very large group.

¹⁰When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they cried loudly and bitterly for his father. Joseph’s time of sorrow continued for seven days. ¹¹The people that lived in Canaan saw the sadness at the threshing floor of Atad and said, “Those Egyptians are showing great sorrow!” So now that place is named Sorrow of the Egyptians.

¹²So Jacob’s sons did as their father commanded. ¹³They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.