Jacob’s body is embalmed—Joseph buries him in Canaan—He comforts his brethren—The children of Israel multiply—Joseph promises that God will bring Israel out of Egypt into Canaan—Joseph dies in Egypt and is embalmed.

 AND ^aJoseph^• fell upon his father’s face, and ^bwept^• upon him, and kissed him.

 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to ^aembalm^• his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

 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,

 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my ^agrave^• 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.

 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

 ¶ 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,

 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 ^aGoshen^•.

 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they ^amourned^• with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a ^bmourning^• for his father seven days.

 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called ^aAbel^•-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

 For his sons ^acarried^• 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 ^bburyingplace^• of ^cEphron^• the Hittite, before Mamre.

 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

 ¶ And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, ^aJoseph^• will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

 So shall ye say unto Joseph, ^aForgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph ^bwept^• when they spake unto him.

 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy ^aservants^•.

 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

 But as for you, ye thought ^aevil against me; but God ^bmeant^• it unto ^cgood^•, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

 Now therefore fear ye not: I will ^anourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

 ¶ And ^aJoseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s ^achildren of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of ^bManasseh^• were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

 ^aAnd^• Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and ^bbring you out of this land unto the ^cland which he sware to ^dAbraham^•, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

 And Joseph took an ^aoath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my ^bbones^• from hence.

 So ^aJoseph^{• b}died^•, being an hundred and ten years old: and they ^cembalmed^• him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.