2 And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And he was forty days old, for so many days are used for embalming, and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

4 And when the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph said to Pharaoh's courtiers, saying, If I have found favor in your eyes, then say to Pharaoh thus:

5 My father cursed me, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my tomb, which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there bury me. And now I would like to go and bury my father and return. [Joseph's words were recounted to Pharaoh.]

6 And Pharaoh said, 'Go and bury your father, as he has cursed you.'

7 And Joseph went to bury his father. And all Pharaoh's servants, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went with him;

8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house. Only their children and their flocks and herds left in the land of Goshen.

9 And chariots and horsemen went with him, so that the assembly was very great.

10 And they came to Goren-ga'atad by the Jordan, and wept there with great and exceedingly great weeping; And Joseph wept for his father seven days.

11 And the inhabitants of the land of Canaanite saw the mourning in Goren-gaatad, and said, 'Great is this mourning among the Egyptians!' Therefore the name was given to that place: the lamentation of the Egyptians that are by the Jordan.

12 And the sons of Jacob did to him as he had commanded them;

13 And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in a cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the field for burial property from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned to Egypt, himself, and his brethren, and all those who went with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, 'What if Joseph hates us, and wants to avenge us for all the evil that we have done him?'