1 When Jacob died, Joseph hugged his father and cried over him and kissed him.
2 He commanded the doctors who served him to prepare his father’s body, so the doctors prepared Jacob’s body to be buried.
3 It took the doctors forty days to prepare his body (the usual time it took). And the Egyptians had a time of sorrow for Jacob that lasted seventy days.
4 When this time of sorrow had ended, Joseph spoke to the king’s officers and said, “If you think well of me, please tell this to the king: