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1 Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him. 2 And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics. 3 And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days. 4 And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: “If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh. Genesis 50:1-4, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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