Genesis:50:4-11
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And when the days of his mourning were past ,
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh ,
saying ,
If now I have found grace in your eyes ,
speak ,
I pray you ,
in the ears of Pharaoh ,
saying ,
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My father made me swear ,
saying ,
Lo ,
I die :
in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan ,
there shalt thou bury me .
Now therefore let me go up ,
I pray thee ,
and bury my father ,
and I will come again .
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And Pharaoh said ,
Go up ,
and bury thy father ,
according as he made thee swear .
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And Joseph went up to bury his father :
and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh ,
the elders of his house ,
and all the elders of the land of Egypt ,
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And all the house of Joseph ,
and his brethren ,
and his father '
s house :
only their little ones ,
and their flocks ,
and their herds ,
they left in the land of Goshen .
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen :
and it was a very great company .
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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad ,
which is beyond Jordan ,
and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation :
and he made a mourning for his father seven days .
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And when the inhabitants of the land ,
the Canaanites ,
saw the mourning in the floor of Atad ,
they said ,
This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians :
wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim ,
which is beyond Jordan .