³ taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.^(A)

⁴ When the days of mourning^(B) had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,^(C) “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(D) speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, ⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath^(E) and said, “I am about to die;^(F) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^(G) in the land of Canaan.”^(H) Now let me go up and bury my father;^(I) then I will return.’”

⁶ Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials^(J) accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court^(K) and all the dignitaries of Egypt— ⁸ besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.^(L) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.^{(M) 9} Chariots^(N) and horsemen^[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company.

¹⁰ When they reached the threshing floor^(O) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;^(P) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period^(Q) of mourning^(R) for his father.^(S)

²⁹ and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died,^(A) all the Israelites mourned for him^(B) thirty days.