When Pharaoh granted Joseph's request, a procession formed that had no precedent in Hebrew history. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan records it plainly. "And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mizraim, went up with him" (Genesis 50:7).
Three circles of Egyptian leadership joined the funeral. The personal servants of Pharaoh. The elders of the royal household. The elders of the entire land of Egypt. This was not a family burial. This was a state occasion. The greatest civilization of the known world emptied its courts to carry a Hebrew shepherd-patriarch north to Hebron.
The Aramaic phrasing repeats the verb "went up" — aliyah — three times in the surrounding verses. Joseph went up. The servants went up. The elders went up. The same root that Jewish tradition uses for pilgrimage to Jerusalem is used here for the journey to bury Jacob. The Targum is making a subtle point: when a righteous soul is carried home to the Holy Land, even Egyptian nobles are making an aliyah. Jacob in his coffin accomplished what Jacob in his life never did — he brought the Egyptian court to the borders of the Promised Land.