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.”