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.
5. Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”
6. Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.
7. So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.