² Then Joseph talked to the doctors who served him. He told them to prepare the body of his father Israel to be buried. So the doctors prepared it.

³ They took 40 days to do it. They needed that much time to prepare a body in the right way. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob 70 days.

²⁶ So Joseph died at the age of 110. They prepared his body to be buried. Then he was placed in a casket in Egypt.