 According to the Bible, Joseph was embalmed and buried in a coffin in Egypt, after having his people swear to carry his bones away.Later midrash identify his first entombment in a royal mausoleum, or as cast into the Nile.Moses is said to have gathered the bones and taken them with him during the Exodus from Egypt, using magic to raise the coffin, a tradition repeated by Josephus, who specifies that they were buried in Canaan at that time.