A weeklong series of tributes to former President Jimmy Carter culminates Thursday in a ceremonial state funeral in Washington, where all five of the country’s living presidents will gather and temporarily lay down their partisan swords to say goodbye to one of their own.

Mr. Carter, who has been lying in state at the Capitol for the past two days, will be taken to the Washington National Cathedral at 10 a.m. for a service that will include all the rituals of a national farewell rite. He will then be flown back to his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he will be buried in front of the modest ranch house where he lived most of his life and died last week.

The service marks the culmination of America’s tribute to its 39th president, who sought to heal the nation after the traumas of the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War while presiding over a tumultuous period from 1977 to 1981. President Biden will deliver a eulogy. So did Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, a longtime friend and White House domestic adviser to Mr. Carter.

Eulogies written by former President Gerald R. Ford and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale before their own deaths will be read by their sons, Steven Ford and Ted Mondale. Mr. Carter defeated Mr. Ford in the 1976 election, but they later became friends while Mr. Mondale was his close partner in the White House for four years.

There will also be readings by Jason Carter and Joshua Carter, another grandson, and Andrew Young, the civil rights activist who served as Mr. Carter’s ambassador to the United Nations, will give a sermon. Among the musical performances, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will sing John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as President-elect Donald J. Trump, are also expected to attend the service. This is the first gathering of the so-called President’s Club since Mr. Trump won the election in November. The same group is expected to meet again for his inauguration just 11 days later.

Mr. Trump will be the odd man out among presidents who view him as a dangerous force and, in some cases, harshly denounce him. Even Mr. Bush, the only other Republican in the group, has suggested other candidates instead of voting for Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump has no speaking role and is not a favorite of the Carter family. He has regularly denigrated Mr. Carter over the years, particularly during last year’s election campaign, when Mr. Trump used the former president as a foil for attacks on Mr. Biden. Since Mr. Carter’s death, Mr. Trump has offered a few words of grace but has not hesitated to excoriate his predecessor for his decision in 1977 to hand control of the Panama Canal to Panama.

Mr. Biden, who may be the surviving president who was closest to Mr. Carter, has declared Thursday a national day of mourning and closed the federal government to all but essential operations while flags fly at half-staff. Mr. Carter’s casket will be taken from the cathedral to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for its final flight aboard an Air Force One presidential jet.

After a final private service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Mr. Carter taught Sunday school into his 90s, a motorcade carrying the casket will make a final journey through Plains to the Carter home.

Navy jets will conduct a flyover in missing-in-missing formation and then Mr. Carter will be buried in a family plot next to Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years who died in late 2023.