Genesis 50:4

New American Bible - revised edition

When the period of mourning was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s household. “If you please, appeal to Pharaoh, saying:

Cross References

Genesis 18:3

he said: “Sir, if it please you, do not go on past your servant.

Genesis 50:3

they spent forty days at it, for that is the full period of embalming; and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.

Genesis 50:5

My father made me swear: ‘I am dying. Bury me in my grave that I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.’ So now let me go up to bury my father. Then I will come back.”