Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

9Verse 9. You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea. 10Verse 10. You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day. 11Verse 11. You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters. 12Verse 12. You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel. 13Verse 13. You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. 14Verse 14. You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses. 15Verse 15. In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.

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.