1 Then Joseph ch. 46:4fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 3 Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians [ver. 10; Num. 20:29;Deut. 34:8;1 Sam. 31:13;Job 2:13]wept for him seventy days.
10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, [2 Sam. 1:17;Acts 8:2] they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he [ver. 3]made a mourning for his father seven days. 13 for ch. 49:29,30;[Acts 7:16] his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham ch. 23:16bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.