Genesis 50:1-3

New International Reader's Version

50 Joseph threw himself on his father’s body. He wept over him and kissed him. ² Then Joseph talked to the doctors who served him. He told them to prepare the body of his father Israel to be buried. So the doctors prepared it. ³ They took 40 days to do it. They needed that much time to prepare a body in the right way. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob 70 days.