1 Joseph fell across his father’s body, wept over him, and kissed him.
2 Joseph then ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 They mourned for him forty days because that is the period required for embalming. Then the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
4 After the period of mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s household: "If you approve my request, give Pharaoh this message:
5 My father made me promise, telling me, ‘I’m about to die. You must bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now, let me leave and let me bury my father, and then I will return."