Midrasch zu Bereschit 50:1

And Joseph fell upon his father crying and weeping, and he kissed his father and cried out in a ‎bitter voice, oh my father, my father! And all the wives of his sons, and all his household, ‎came, and they fell upon Jacob and wept over him and they cried over Jacob in an exceedingly ‎loud voice. And all the sons of Jacob rose up, and they rent their garments and put sackcloth ‎upon their loins, and they fell upon their faces and they scattered dust over their heads ‎heavenwards. And the sad news was told unto Osnath, Joseph’s wife, and she arose and she ‎put on a sack, and she came with all the Egyptian women and all of them mourned and wept ‎over Jacob. And all the people of Egypt that knew Jacob, on hearing this thing, assembled and ‎came likewise on that day to weep over Jacob, and all Egypt wept for Jacob many days. And ‎the women from the land of Canaan came also unto Egypt when they heard of Jacob’s death, ‎and they wept for him in Egypt seventy days. And after wards Joseph ordered his servants, ‎the physicians, to embalm his father with myrrh and frankincense, and with all sorts of spices ‎and perfumery. And the physicians embalmed Jacob according to Joseph’s commandments. ‎And all Egypt, and all the elders and inhabitants of Goshen wept and mourned for Jacob. And ‎all the sons of Jacob and the children of his household wept and mourned over Jacob, their ‎father, for many days. And when the days of weeping were over, at the end of seventy days, ‎Joseph said unto Pharaoh: I will go up to bury my father in the land of Canaan according to ‎what he caused me to swear, and then I shall return. And Pharaoh sent Joseph, saying: Go up ‎and bury thy father as he hath said, and as he hath caused thee to swear. And Joseph arose ‎with all his brothers, and they went up to the land of Canaan to bury their father as he had ‎commanded them. And Pharaoh issued a proclamation throughout Egypt, saying: All those ‎that fail to go up with Joseph and his brothers to the land of Canaan to bury Jacob, shall die. ‎And all Egypt obeyed Pharaoh’s order, and they rose up all together, and all the servants of ‎Pharaoh, and all the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went up ‎with Joseph. And all the princes and officers of Pharaoh, the servants of Joseph, went up ‎likewise, to bury Jacob in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Jacob carried the bier on which ‎Jacob lay, according to all their father had commanded unto them, his sons did unto Jacob. And ‎the bier was of pure gold inlaid with onyx stones and bdellium all around, and the cover of the ‎work was a cloth woven of gold trimmed in fringes and over it were fastenings of onyx stones ‎and bdellium. And upon the head of his father, Jacob, Joseph placed a large crown of gold and ‎a scepter of gold he gave into his hand, and they surrounded the bier according to the manner ‎of kings during their life time.‎

Elsewhere (in 18:2, 16, 19:5f.) < Scripture > calls them "persons," but here it calls them "angels." To what is the matter comparable? To someone who received a dominion from the king. All the days that he was traveling on the road, he traveled as a paganus {i.e. alone} ⁷⁹The Latin word means “peasant.” {He did not do otherwise.} When he arrived to take his place, his tax collectors and the natives of the region began honoring him. So < it was with > the angels when they came to destroy the region. Before they entered Sodom, they traveled like humans. After they came to Sodom, it is written (in Gen. 19:1): THEN THE TWO ANGELS CAME. Did they depart from Abraham's place at noon and come to Sodom < only > in the evening?⁸⁰Gen. 50:1. It is simply that they were angels of mercy and had waited for the possibility that Abraham might plead < some > merit on their account so that < the city > would not be destroyed. For that reason they had waited until the evening.