Testament of Jacob

Testament of Jacob, Gaselee1927 Bohairic translation, printedpage 85

APPENDIX 85 made me swear, when he was about to come forth from the body (uw/La), saying, Bury my body (uwµ.a) in the sepulchre of my fathers, in the land of Canaan; (f. I86a) now let him command me that I may bury my father there, and come again. Pharaoh the king spake unto Joseph the wise, saying: Go in peace (Elp11V1J) and bury thy father, according to (Kam) the oath which he made thee swear. Take with thee the chariots (apµ.a) and the cars and all the great ones of my kingdom, and whomever thou shalt require (-aiTELv) from among my servants. Joseph worshipped God before Pharaoh ; he went from him. Joseph went up to bury his father; there went with him all the servants of Pharaoh, and the elders of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of Israel. And there went up with him the chariots (apµ.a) and the horsemen (t1r1rros); the host (7rapEJ-L/30>..11) became exceeding great. (f. I86b) And (SE) they stayed at the threshing-floor of Gadad which is upon the bank beyond Jordan : they mourned him there with a great and very sore mourning : and they made a mourning for him for seven days. They that dwelt in the lower land heard the mourning that was made at the threshing-floor of Gadad; they said : This grievous mourning is of the Egyptians. Unto this very day they call that place : The mourning of the Egyptians. They carried Israel and buried him in the land of Canaan in the double sepulchre which Abraham bought for the price 1 (KT1Juts) of silver of Ephron the Hit- tite before Mamre. And (SE) Joseph returned into 1 Lit. " possession."