10. Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
11. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
12. So his sons did for him just as he had commanded 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 bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.
14. And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
15. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.”
16. So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying,
17. ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
18. Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
19. Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20. But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.