Genesis 50:1-6

Joseph flung himself over Jacob, kissing him and weeping. And his tears fell on his father’s face. When he was able to compose himself, he ordered the royal physicians to embalm his father. So, they began the required forty-day process. The Egyptians mourned for Israel for seventy days, and when the weeping period was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s officials and said to them, “Please, may I ask a personal favor? Bring my appeal before Pharaoh and tell him: ‘My dying father made me promise that I would bury him in the land of Canaan—in a tomb he had hewn with his own hands. Please give me permission to go and bury my father; then I will return.’ ” Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Go to Canaan, bury your father, and keep your promise to him.”