Genesis 50:1-4 ▼

1 Then Joseph hugged his father's face. He wept over him and kissed him.

2 Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's royal court, |If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,