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Joseph leads a vast Egyptian procession to bury his father Jacob in the cave at Machpelah; the seven-day mourning at the threshing floor of Atad on the Jordan east is so striking the Canaanites name the site Abel-mizraim — "mourning of Egypt."
Genesis 50 narrates one of the most elaborate funeral processions in biblical history. When Jacob died at age 147 in the land of Goshen, Joseph had the Egyptian physicians embalm him — a 40-day process — and then mourned him with all Egypt for 70 days. Pharaoh granted Joseph permission to fulfill his father's deathbed oath: that Jacob be buried not in Egypt but with his fathers Abraham and Isaac in the cave of Machpelah at Hebron. The procession that travelled up from Egypt was extraordinary: "And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
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