1. Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him and kissed him.
2. Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3. Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
4. When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
5. 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'"
6. Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear."
7. So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8. and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.