⁹ Now hurry^(A) back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.^{(B) 10} You shall live in the region of Goshen^(C) and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.^{(D) 11} I will provide for you there,^(E) because five years of famine^(F) are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’^(G)

¹² “You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin,^(H) that it is really I who am speaking to you.^{(I) 13} Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt^(J) and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.^(K)”

²⁹ Joseph had his chariot^(A) made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel.^(B) As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father^[a] and wept^(C) for a long time.^(D)

¹¹ So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land,^(A) the district of Rameses,^(B) as Pharaoh directed.

¹² Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.^(A)

¹² Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees^(A) and bowed down with his face to the ground.^(B)

50 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.^{(A) 2} Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,^{(B) 3} taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.^(C)

⁴ When the days of mourning^(D) had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,^(E) “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(F) speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, ⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath^(G) and said, “I am about to die;^(H) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^(I) in the land of Canaan.”^(J) Now let me go up and bury my father;^(K) then I will return.’”

⁶ Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials^(L) accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court^(M) and all the dignitaries of Egypt— ⁸ besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.^(N) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.^{(O) 9} Chariots^(P) and horsemen^[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company.

¹⁰ When they reached the threshing floor^(Q) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;^(R) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period^(S) of mourning^(T) for his father.^{(U) 11} When the Canaanites^(V) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”^(W) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.^[b]

¹² So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:^{(X) 13} They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,^(Y) near Mamre,^(Z) which Abraham had bought along with the field^(AA) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.^(AB)