And when
they came to the field of Atad beyond Iordan, there they made
great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his
father seven days. When the inhabiters of the land the Cananites
saw the mourning in the field of Atad, they said: this is a great
mourning which the Egyptians make. Wherefore the name of the place
is called Abel mizraim, which place lieth beyond Iordan. And his
sons did unto him according as he had commanded them. And his sons
carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double
cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury
in, of Ephron the Hethite before Mamre. And Ioseph returned to
Egypt again and his brethren, and all that went up with him to
bury his father, as soon as he had buried him. When Ioseph's
brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: Ioseph might
fortune to hate us and reward us again all the evil which we did
unto him. They did therefore a commandment unto Ioseph saying: thy
father charged before his death saying: This wise say unto Ioseph,
forgive I pray thee the trespass of thy brethren and their sin,
for they rewarded thee evil. Now therefore we pray thee, forgive
the trespass of the servants of thy father's God.
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