"Joseph asked the Pharaoh to be allowed to go and bury his father and all the Pharaoh's ministers and the elders of the land of Egypt went with him.
When they arrived in The Hague of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they made a very great and solemn lament, and Joseph celebrated a seven-day mourning for his father.
The sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them, took him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Macpela, that field which Abraham had bought, as a burial property, from Efron Hittita, and which is opposite Mamre.
(Genesis, 50.4-7, 10-13)