Gen 50:1-6 | ESV | STEP | Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:1-6

1 Then Joseph ^afell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to ^bembalm 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 ^cwept for him seventy days.

4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, ^d“If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb ^ethat 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.’” 6 And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”