The Death and Burial of Jacob — Genesis

29He commanded them and said to them, "I am being gathered to my kinsman. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial possession. 31There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah. There they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And there I buried Leah. 32The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the sons of Heth." 33When Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet onto the bed, died, and was gathered to his kinsman.

Chapter 50

1Joseph fell on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him. 2Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3They completed forty days for him, because that is how the days of embalming are completed, and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days. 4When the days of mourning for him had passed, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh on my behalf: 5My father made me swear, saying, 'Behold, I am dying. In my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.' Now let me go up and bury my father, and then return." 6Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do." 7Joseph went up to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went up with him. 8All Joseph's household and his brothers and his father's household went up with him, except the children, flocks, and herds, which they left in the land of Goshen. 9Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so that the company was very large. 10They came to the threshing floor of Atad beside the Jordan and mourned there with a very great and heavy mourning, and Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father. 11When the Canaanite who dwelt in the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore the place was called Abel-mizraim, which is beside the Jordan. 12His sons did for him exactly as he had commanded them. 13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial possession, before Mamre. 14After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.