Genesis 50

¹And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father’s face weeping and kissing him.

²And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.

³And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

⁴And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharao:

⁵For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.

⁶And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

⁷So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

⁸And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

⁹He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

¹⁰And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

¹¹And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.

So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.