1. Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
2. Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob was embalmed.
3. The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.
4. When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.