Genesis 50:5–13

⁵‘My father made me swear an oath^o and said, “I am about to die;^p bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^q in the land of Canaan.”^r Now let me go up and bury my father;^s then I will return.’ ”

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

⁷So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials^t accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court^u and all the dignitaries of Egypt—⁸besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.^v Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.^{w 9}Chariots^x and horsemen^a also went up with him. It was a very large company.

¹⁰When they reached the threshing floor^y of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;^z and there Joseph observed a seven-day period^a of mourning^b for his father.^{c 11}When the Canaanites^d who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”^e That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.^b

¹²So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:^{f 13}They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,^g near Mamre,^h which Abraham had bought along with the fieldⁱ as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.^j