4. When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, “Please take this message to the king:
5. ‘When my father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the tomb which he had prepared in the land of Canaan. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will come back.’ ”
6. The king answered, “Go and bury your father, as you promised you would.”