Genesis 50:1-6 ▼

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,

5 My father made me swear an oath. He said, |I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.| Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.'|

6 So Pharaoh said, |Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.|