1. Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him.
2. And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.
3. And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.
4. And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: "If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh.
5. For my father made me swear, saying: 'See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.' Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return."
6. And Pharaoh said to him, "Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear."
7. So as he went up, all the elders of the house of Pharaoh went with him, along with every patriarch in the land of Egypt,