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Then Joseph fell on his father '
s face ,
and wept over him ,
and kissed him .
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father .
So the physicians embalmed Israel ;
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forty days were required for it ,
for so many are required for embalming .
And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days .
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And when the days of weeping for him were past ,
Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh ,
saying , "
If now I have found favor in your eyes ,
speak ,
I pray you ,
in the ears of Pharaoh ,
saying ,
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My father made me swear ,
saying , `
I am about to die :
in my tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan ,
there shall you bury me .'
Now therefore let me go up ,
I pray you ,
and bury my father ;
then I will return ."
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And Pharaoh answered , "
Go up ,
and bury your father ,
as he made you swear ."
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So Joseph went up to bury his father ;
and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh ,
the elders of his household ,
and all the elders of the land of Egypt ,
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as well as all the household of Joseph ,
his brothers ,
and his father '
s household ;
only their children ,
their flocks ,
and their herds were left in the land of Goshen .
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And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen ;
it was a very great company .
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When they came to the threshing floor of Atad ,
which is beyond the Jordan ,
they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation ;
and he made a mourning for his father seven days .
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When the inhabitants of the land ,
the Canaanites ,
saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad ,
they said , "
This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians ."
Therefore the place was named A '
bel-mizraim ;
it is beyond the Jordan .
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Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them ;
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for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan ,
and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pe '
lah ,
to the east of Mamre ,
which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite ,
to possess as a burying place .
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After he had buried his father ,
Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father .