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And he commanded them, and said to them, I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.

They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and I buried Leah there;

the purchase of the field and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth.

And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.

And Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept on him, and kissed him.

And Joseph commanded the physicians, his servants, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

And forty days were fulfilled, for so are fulfilled the days of those embalmed. And Egypt wept for him seventy days.

And the days of his weeping passed by, and Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; you shall bury me there in the grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan. And now please let me go up and bury my father, and return.

And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.

And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, even all the elders of the land of Egypt,

and all the house of Joseph and his brothers, and the house of his father. Only, they left their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

And both horsemen and chariots went up with him; and the company was very great.

And they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns, which is on the other side of the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a lamentation for his father seven days.

And those living in the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing in the grain floor of thorns. And they said, This is a very great wailing to Egypt; for this reason its name was called The Meadow of Egypt, which is on the otherside of Jordan.

And his sons did to him as he had commanded them.

And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah; the field which Abraham bought for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

And after he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all those going up with him to bury his father.