1 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
2 Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob was embalmed.
3 The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.
4 When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.