Genesis 50:3-5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

³ They took 40 days to complete this, for embalming takes that long, and the Egyptians mourned for him 70 days.^(A)

⁴ When the days of mourning were over, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s household, “If I have found favor with you, please tell^[a] Pharaoh that ⁵ my father made me take an oath,^(B) saying, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.’^(C) Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.”