When the days of mourning were over, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s household, “If I have found favor with you, please tell[a] Pharaoh that my father made me take an oath,(A) saying, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.’(B) Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.”

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father in keeping with your oath.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:4 Lit please speak in the ears of

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