1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,5 My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die; in my grave which I have dug myself in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. And now, let me go up, I pray thee, that I may bury my father; and I will come again.6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the bondmen of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,8 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.9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and the camp was very great.10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days.11 And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.12 And his sons did to him according as he had commanded them;13 and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.14 And, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that had gone up with him to bury his father.15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!16 And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying,17 Thus shall ye speak to Joseph: Oh forgive, I pray thee, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin! for they did evil to thee. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we are thy bondmen.19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not: am I then in the place of God?20 Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as {it is} this day, to save a great people alive.21 And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them.22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third {generation}; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.24 And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence.26 And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Toe val Josef op sy vader se aangesig, en hy het oor hom geween en hom gesoen.2 En Josef het aan sy dienaars, die geneeshere, bevel gegee om sy vader te balsem. En die geneeshere het Israel gebalsem.3 En veertig dae het daarvoor verbygegaan; want so lank duur die dae van balseming. En die Egiptenaars het hom sewentig dae lank beween.4 En toe die dae van geween oor hom verby was, het Josef met die huis van Farao gespreek en gesê: As ek dan guns in julle oë gevind het, spreek tog dit voor die ore van Farao:5 My vader het my laat sweer en gesê: Kyk, ek gaan sterwe; in my graf wat ek vir my in die land Kana„n uitgekap het, daar moet jy my begrawe. Laat my dan nou tog optrek en my vader begrawe. Daarna sal ek terugkom.6 En Farao sê: Trek op en begrawe jou vader soos hy jou laat sweer het.7 Toe het Josef opgetrek om sy vader te begrawe, en al die dienaars van Farao, die oudstes van sy huis, het saam met hom opgetrek, en al die oudstes van Egipteland;8 ook die hele huis van Josef en sy broers en die huis van sy vader. Net hulle kinders en hulle kleinvee en hulle beeste het hulle in die land Gosen laat agterbly.9 En saam met hom het opgetrek strydwaens sowel as ruiters, sodat dit 'n baie groot trek was.10 En toe hulle by die Steekdoring-dorsvloer kom, wat oos van die Jordaan lê, het hulle daar 'n groot en baie swaar rouklag gehou. En hy het oor sy vader rou laat bedrywe sewe dae lank.11 Toe die inwoners van die land, die Kanaäniete, die roubedryf by die Steekdoring-dorsvloer sien, sê hulle: Dit is 'n swaar rou vir die Egiptenaars. Daarom het hulle dit Abel-Misraim genoem, wat oos van die Jordaan lê.12 En sy seuns het met hom gedoen net soos hy hulle beveel het:13 sy seuns het hom weggebring na die land Kanaän en hom begrawe in die spelonk van die stuk grond van Magp,la, die stuk grond wat Abraham as eiendomsgraf gekoop het van Efron, die Hetiet, oos van Mamre.14 Daarna het Josef na Egipte teruggegaan, hy en sy broers en almal wat saam met hom opgetrek het om sy vader te begrawe, nadat hy sy vader begrawe het.15 Toe die broers van Josef sien dat hulle vader dood was, het hulle gesê: Sê nou Josef gaan ons as vyande behandel en hy gaan ons werklik vergelde al die kwaad wat ons hom aangedoen het!16 Daarom het hulle hierdie boodskap na Josef gestuur: U vader het voor sy dood bevel gegee met hierdie woorde:17 So moet julle vir Josef sê: Ag, vergewe tog die oortreding van jou broers en hulle sonde, want hulle het jou kwaad aangedoen. Maar nou, vergewe tog die oortreding van ons wat die God van u vader dien. En Josef het geween toe hulle met hom spreek.18 En sy broers het ook self gegaan en voor hom neergeval en gesê: Kyk, ons is u slawe.19 Maar Josef het hulle geantwoord: Moenie bevrees wees nie; want is ek in die plek van God?20 Want julle het wel kwaad teen my bedink, maar God het dit ten goede gedink om te doen soos dit vandag is, om 'n groot volk in die lewe te hou.21 Wees dan nou nie bevrees nie: ,k sal julle en julle kinders onderhou. So het hy hulle dan getroos en na hulle hart gespreek.22 En Josef het in Egipte gewoon, hy en die huis van sy vader. En Josef het honderd en tien jaar gelewe.23 En Josef het van Efraim kinders gesien van die derde geslag. Ook die kinders van Magir, die seun van Manasse, is op Josef se knieë gebore.24 En Josef het aan sy broers gesê: Ek gaan sterwe, maar God sal gewis op julle ag gee en julle uit hierdie land laat optrek na die land wat Hy aan Abraham, Isak en Jakob met 'n eed beloof het.25 En Josef het die seuns van Israel laat sweer en gesê: As God sekerlik op julle ag sal gee -- bring dan my gebeente hiervandaan op.26 En Josef het gesterwe, honderd en tien jaar oud. En hulle het hom gebalsem, en hy is in 'n kis gesit in Egipte.