Genesis 50:2-4

New Life Version

² Joseph told his servants the doctors to make his father ready to be buried. So the doctors made Israel ready. ³ Forty days were needed for this. For this is how much time it took for making the body ready to be buried. And the Egyptians cried for him seventy days.

⁴ When the days of sorrow for him were past, Joseph said to those of Pharaoh’s house, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh, saying,