Genesis 50:1-6 ▼

1 And Joseph falls on his father’s face, and weeps over him, and kisses him;

2 and Joseph commands his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;

3 and they fulfill for him forty days, for so they fulfill the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.

4 And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaks to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father caused me to swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there you bury me; and now, please let me go up and bury my father, then I return”;

6 and Pharaoh says, “Go up and bury your father, as he caused you to swear.”