Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.
‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”
So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—