12. Thus his sons did for him as he had charged them;
13. for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
14. After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
15. When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!"
16. So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father charged before he died, saying,
17. 'Thus you shall say to Joseph, "Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong."' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.