Mourns the death of his father
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--Genesis--

And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. (50:1)

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. (50:2)

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. (50:3)

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, (50:4)

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. (50:5)

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. (50:6)

And 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, (50:7)

And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. (50:8)

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. (50:9)

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. (50:10)

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan. (50:11)

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: (50:12)

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. (50:13)

And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. (50:14)

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