And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:
And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:
And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.
My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.
And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.