Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Genesis 50
¹ Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him.
² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
³ Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
⁴ And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
⁵ ’My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’ "
⁶ And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear."
⁷ So Joseph 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 Egypt,
⁸ as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.
⁹ And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering.
¹⁰ Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.