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."