2. Then Joseph ordered the doctors in his service to embalm his father. So the doctors embalmed Israel.
3. The embalming was completed in the usual time—40 days. The Egyptians mourned for him 70 days.
4. When the time of mourning for Jacob was over, Joseph spoke to the Pharaoh’s palace staff. He said, “Please speak directly to Pharaoh. Tell him,
5. ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, “I’m about to die. Bury me in the tomb I bought for myself in Canaan.” Please let me go there and bury my father; then I’ll come back.’ ”
6. Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father, as you have promised him.”
7. So Joseph left to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials, the leaders in his palace staff, and all the leaders of Egypt went with him.
8. Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household also went with him. (Only their children, their flocks, and their cattle were left in Goshen.)