1 Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him.
2 And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 Forty days were required for it, for thus are the days required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4 When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan—there you must bury me.” So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.’ ”
6 Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father as he made you swear.”