Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, / In the morning devouring the prey / And in the evening dividing the spoil.

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them; he blessed them, each one according to his blessing.

And he charged them and said to them, I am being gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for the possession of a burial place —

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah —

The field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the children of Heth.

And when Jacob had finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed and expired, and he was gathered to his people.

Then Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

And forty days were spent for this, for this is the time to be spent for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

And when the days of weeping for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,

My father made me swear, saying, Now I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.

And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

And all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

And chariots also went up with him, as well as horsemen; and it was a very great company.

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

And thus his sons did to him as he commanded them;

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought with the field for a possession of a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.