1. Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him.
2. And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3. Forty days were required for it, for thus are the days required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4. When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,
5. ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan—there you must bury me.” So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.’ ”
6. Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father as he made you swear.”