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Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him.
2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
3
Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
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And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."