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When the days of mourning for him were past, Josephspoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "Ifnow I have foundfavor in your sight, pleasespeak to Pharaoh, saying,
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'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die; in my gravewhich I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.' "
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So Josephwent up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
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and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father'shousehold; they leftonly their littleones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.