Genesis 50:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ This took forty days, the time it takes to embalm. The Egyptians mourned for him for seventy days.

⁴ When the days of mourning were over, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh. He said, “If I have found favor in your sight, I wish to speak these words into the ears of Pharaoh: ⁵ My father made me take an oath: ‘Behold, I am about to die. Bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.’ May I go to bury my father and return?”