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."
6. Pharaoh replied, "Go, bury your father as you promised."