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Josephcommanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians1embalmedIsrael.
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Now fortydays were required for it, for such is the periodrequired for embalming. And the Egyptians2wept for him seventydays.
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When the days of mourning for him were past, Josephspoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "Ifnow I have foundfavor in your sight, pleasespeak to Pharaoh, saying,
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'3My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my grave4which 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; then I will return.' "
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Pharaohsaid, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear."
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So Josephwent up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
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and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father'shousehold; they leftonly their littleones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
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There also went up with him bothchariots and horsemen; and it was a verygreatcompany.
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When they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they 5lamentedthere with a verygreat and sorrowfullamentation; and he observedsevendaysmourning for his father.
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Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshingfloor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievousmourning for the Egyptians." Therefore* it was named*Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.