Genesis 50:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ Forty days were set aside for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians mourned for him for seventy days.

⁴ When the days of mourning for Jacob were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh. He said, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak directly to Pharaoh for me and say ⁵ that my father made me take an oath. He said to me, ‘Look, I am dying. Bury me in my tomb that I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will return here again.”