Friday in Season after Pentecost

29Verse 29. Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite. 30Verse 30. The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. 31Verse 31. There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah. 32Verse 32. The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.” 33Verse 33. When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people. 1Verse 1. Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him. 2Verse 2. And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him, 3Verse 3. taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 4Verse 4. When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that 5Verse 5. my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.” 6Verse 6. Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.” 7Verse 7. Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him — the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt — 8Verse 8. along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen. 9Verse 9. Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession. 10Verse 10. When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days. 11Verse 11. When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim. 12Verse 12. So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them. 13Verse 13. They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. 14Verse 14. After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

15Verse 15. This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. 16Verse 16. I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below. 17Verse 17. They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations. 18Verse 18. Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”