The Holy Ivri Heritage Bible

1And Yosef fell upon his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him. 2And Yosef commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisra’el. 3And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and all Mitzrayim mourned for him seventy days. 4And when the days of mourning were past, Yosef spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5‘My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I am about to die; in my grave (qever) which I dug for myself in the land of Kena’an, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will return.” 6And Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.” 7So Yosef 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 Mitzrayim, 8and all the household of Yosef, his brothers, and his father’s household; only their flocks and herds they left in the land of Goshen [Gesem]. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company. 10And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden [Jordan]; and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation; and Yosef made mourning for his father seven days. 11And the inhabitants of the land of Kena’an saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, and they said, “This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Avel-Mitzrayim [Mourning of Egypt], which is beyond the Yarden. 12And his sons did to him as he commanded them. 13For his sons carried him into the land of Kena’an, and buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which Avraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre, as a possession for a burial place. 14And Yosef returned to Mitzrayim, he and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father. 15And when the brothers of Yosef saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Yosef will hate us, and will fully repay us for all the evil which we did to him.” 16And they sent a message to Yosef, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying, 17‘Thus you shall say to Yosef: Forgive, I pray you, the trespass of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.’ And now, forgive the trespass of the servants of the Elohim of your father.” And Yosef wept when they spoke to him. 18And his brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 19And Yosef said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of Elohim? 20You intended evil (ra) against me, but Elohim intended it for good (tov), to bring about this present result, to save many people alive. 21Now therefore do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. 22And Yosef dwelt in Mitzrayim, he and his father’s household; and Yosef lived one hundred and ten years. 23And Yosef saw Ephrayim’s children to the third generation; the children also of Machir, the son of Menasheh, were brought up on Yosef’s knees. 24And Yosef said to his brothers, “I am dying; but Elohim will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which He swore to our fathers, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya’akov.” 25And Yosef made the sons of Yisra’el swear, saying, “Elohim will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” 26So Yosef died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Mitzrayim.