They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?"

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave these instructions before he died:

Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.' Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father." When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, "Here we are; we are your slaves."

Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.

So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.