| 1 | And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him. |
| 2 | And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. |
| 3 | And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days. |
| 4 | And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao: |
| 5 | For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return. |
| 6 | And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear. |
| 7 | So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, |
| 8 | And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen. |
| 9 | He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company. |
| 10 | And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. |
| 11 | And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt. |
| 12 | So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. |
| 13 | And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite over against Mambre. |
| 14 | And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father. |
| 15 | Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. |
| 16 | And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died, |
| 17 | That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. |
| 18 | And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants. |
| 19 | And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God? |
| 20 | You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people. |
| 21 | Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly. |
| 22 | And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasses were born on Joseph's knees. |
| 23 | After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
| 24 | And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place: |
| 25 | And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt. |
