Genesis 50:4-14

New International Version

⁴ When the days of mourning^(A) had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,^(B) “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(C) speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, ⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath^(D) and said, “I am about to die;^(E) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^(F) in the land of Canaan.”^(G) Now let me go up and bury my father;^(H) then I will return.’”

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

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials^(I) accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court^(J) and all the dignitaries of Egypt— ⁸ besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.^(K) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.^{(L) 9} Chariots^(M) and horsemen^[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company.

¹⁰ When they reached the threshing floor^(N) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;^(O) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period^(P) of mourning^(Q) for his father.^{(R) 11} When the Canaanites^(S) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”^(T) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.^[b]

¹² So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:^{(U) 13} They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,^(V) near Mamre,^(W) which Abraham had bought along with the field^(X) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.^{(Y) 14} After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.^(Z)