Yoseif fell on the face of his father, and wept over him and kissed him.

Yoseif commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father and the physicians embalmed Yisrael.

They completed forty days [of embalmment] for him, for that is the number of days required for embalming. The Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

[When] the days of weeping were over, Yoseif spoke to the house of Pharaoh saying, If I have found favor in your eyes, please [now] speak in [before] Pharaoh’s ears, saying.

My father made me swear [an oath] saying, Behold I am dying. In my grave that I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me. Now therefore, please [now], I would go up and bury my father, and then I will return.

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

Yoseif went up to bury his father; and with him went up all Pharaohs servant’s, the elders of this house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

And all Yoseif’s household, his brothers and his father’s household. Only their little ones, their sheep and their cattle did they leave behind in the land of Goshen.

With him also went up chariots and horsemen. It was a very imposing camp.

They came to the threshing place of Atad, which is on the other side of the Jordan, and there they eulogized [him and held] a very great and imposing funeral. He [Yoseif] made seven days of mourning for his father.

The Canaanites who lived in the land saw the mourning in the threshing place of Atad, and they said, This is heavy mourning for Egypt. It was therefore named Egypt’s Mourning, which is on the other side of the Jordan.

His sons did for him as he commanded them.

His sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpeilah, which Avraham purchased along with the field, for a possession as a burial place, from Ephron, the Chittite, facing Mamrei.

Yoseif returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all those who went with him, to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Yoseif’s brothers saw that their father was dead, and they said, Perhaps Yoseif still bears a grudge against us. He will then certainly repay us for all the evil that we did him.

They sent a command to Yoseif saying, Your father issued a command before his death, saying,

This is what you should say to Yoseif, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you. And now please forgive [now] the transgr ession of the servants of the God of your father. Yoseif wept as his brothers spoke to him.

His brothers also went and threw themselves down before him, and they said, Behold, we are your slaves.

Yoseif said to them, Fear not. For am I in place of Elohim? [For I am one who fears Elohim]

You meant to do evil to me, but [from before] Elohim [it was meant] meant it for good, in order to do as it is today, to preserve the lives of a great people.

And now, fear not. I will provide for you and your little ones. He comforted them and spoke [words of consolation] to their hearts.

Yoseif lived in Egypt, he and his father’s household. Yoseif lived one hundred and ten years.

Yoseif saw Ephraim’s children of the third generations. The children of Machir, Menasheh’s son, were born [and Yoseif rasied them] on Yoseif’s knees.

Yoseif said to his brothers, I will die, and Elohim will surely consider you and bring you up out of this land, to the land which He swore to Avraham, Yitzchok and to Yaakov.

Yoseif made the sons of Yisrael swear, saying, Elohim will surely consider you, and you shall bring my bones up from here.

Yoseif died being a hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. Chazak