^{3 Ref} And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

^{4 Ref} And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

^{5 Ref} My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

^{6 Ref} And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

^{7 Ref} So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

^{8 Ref} And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

^{9 Ref} And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.

^{10 Ref} And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.