When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,
He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, “I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
But he went no further than the king’s gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.