Testament of Joseph

Chapter 20

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I know that after my death the Egyptians will afflict you, but God will undertake your cause, and will bring you into that which He promised to your fathers.

But carry ye up my bones with you; for when my bones are taken up, the Lord will be with you in light, and Beliar shall be in darkness with the Egyptians.

And carry ye up Zilpah your mother, and lay her near Bilhah, by the hippodrome, by the side of Rachel.

And when he had said these things, he stretched out his feet, and slept the long sleep at a good old age.

And all Israel bewailed him, and all Egypt, with a great lamentation. For he felt even for the Egyptians even as his own members, and showed them kindness, aiding them in every work, and counsel, and matter.

And when the children of Israel went out of Egypt, they took with them the bones of Joseph, and they buried him in Hebron with his fathers; and the years of his life were one hundred and ten years.