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 ⁹Chariots^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 ¹¹When 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 ¹³They 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

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Footnotes

aOr charioteers
bAbel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.

Cross references

t Ge 45:16
uver 4
vver 14
wSee Ge 45:10
xSee Ge 41:43
y Nu 15:20; Ru 3:2; 2 Sa 24:18; 1 Ki 22:10
z 2 Sa 1:17; 3:33; 2 Ch 35:25; Eze 32:16; Ac 8:2
a 1 Sa 31:13; Job 2:13; Eze 3:15
bSee Ge 27:41; See Lev 10:6
cSee Ge 37:34
dSee Ge 10:18
eSee Ge 37:34
f Ge 49:29
gSee Ge 23:9
hSee Ge 13:18
iSee Ge 23:20
jSee Ge 25:9