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:
5. ‘When my father was near death, I made a promise to him that I would bury him in a cave in the land of Canaan, in a burial place that he cut out for himself. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will return.’ ”
6. The king answered, “Keep your promise. Go and bury your father.”
7. So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king’s officers, the elders of his court, and all the elders of Egypt went with Joseph.
8. Everyone who lived with Joseph and his brothers went with him, as well as everyone who lived with his father. They left only their children, their flocks, and their herds in the land of Goshen.
9. They went with Joseph in chariots and on horses. It was a very large group.