1. Then Joseph, leaning over his father’s face, wept and kissed him.
2. He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.
3. They took 40 days to complete this, for embalming takes that long, and the Egyptians mourned for him 70 days.
4. When the days of mourning were over, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s household, “If I have found favor with you, please tell Pharaoh that
5. my father made me take an oath, saying, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.”
6. So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father in keeping with your oath.”
7. Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh’s servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,
8. along with all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their sheep, and their cattle were left in the land of Goshen.
9. Horses and chariots went up with him; it was a very impressive procession.
10. When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.
11. When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place is named Abel-mizraim. It is across the Jordan.