Genesis:50:5-14
rsv@Genesis:50:5 @ 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."
rsv@Genesis:50:6 @ And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."
rsv@Genesis:50:7 @ 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,
rsv@Genesis:50:8 @ 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.
rsv@Genesis:50:9 @ And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; it was a very great company.
rsv@Genesis:50:10 @ 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.
rsv@Genesis:50:11 @ 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.
rsv@Genesis:50:12 @ Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;
rsv@Genesis:50:13 @ 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.
rsv@Genesis:50:14 @ 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.
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