49:32. And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was gathered to his people. Genesis Chapter 50 The mourning for Jacob, and his interment. Joseph's kindness towards his brethren. His death. 50:1. And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him. 50:2. And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father. 50:3. And 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. 50:4. And 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: 50:5. For 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. 50:6. And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear. 50:7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 50:8. And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen. 50:9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company. 50:10. And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days. 50:11. And 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. 50:12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. 50:13. And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre. 50:14. And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had buried his father. 50:15. Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him. 50:16. And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died, 50:17. That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept. 50:18. And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants. 50:19. And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?