3 And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.
4 And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: 'If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh.
5 For my father made me swear, saying: 'See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.' Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.'
6 And Pharaoh said to him, 'Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.'
7 So as he went up, all the elders of the house of Pharaoh went with him, along with every patriarch in the land of Egypt,
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