1 Joseph flung himself upon his father and wept over him as he kissed him.
2 Then Joseph ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. When the physicians embalmed Israel,
3 they spent forty days at it, for that is the full period of embalming; and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
4 When the period of mourning was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s household. “If you please, appeal to Pharaoh, saying:
5 My father made me swear: ‘I am dying. Bury me in my grave that I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.’ So now let me go up to bury my father. Then I will come back.”
6 Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise on oath.”
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went all of Pharaoh’s officials who were senior members of his household and all the other elders of the land of Egypt,