1 AND Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

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

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

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

14 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 ¶ And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 so shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

20  But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. [ Joseph says this to his brother after they are aware of who he is. What Joseph is saying is I that he was sent as a forerunner into Egypt to be there in order for your temporal salvation. Or in order to save you. So he is saying is that I was sent as a forerunner I was sent as an Elias. And I don't think it's as an an Elias I think Joseph is the Elias that's talked about here in the Kirtland Temple I think at least that's my opinion I think that Elias that commits that gives the keys of the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham is the last of that of the Abrahamic dispensation And that last person who was and could not have been a better forerunner or a better person to prepare the way for the salvation of Israel uh couldn't be anybody better than Joseph himself And and those are the keys I think that we see being passed now a resurrected being being passed to Joseph in the Kirtland Temple Well what's interesting is is you know when when we I think when we really understand the scriptures and we understand where the Book of Mormon comes from and what the legacy is there of of that those two tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim going back to Joseph it's then the legacy of Joseph who I think has a lot to do with the brass plates but it's it's then the legacy of Joseph that is the one that is preserving the gospel and in a sense preparing the way even in this dispensation to be able to gather Israel with the Book of Mormon ]

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

22 ¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

26 so Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. [ Joseph made them promise that they'd take his body, later on, when Moses returned back to the Holy Land, and then it says Joshua buried the bones of Joseph, which they brought out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, which had been Jacob's first plot of land that he bought and which then would fall as Joseph's inheritance see Joshua 24:32. So how do you get a body to last 400 years? We are told here that they embalmed him and put him in a coffin in Egypt. Joseph was a mummy for 400 years before they brought him out in the Exodus. ]