⁴ When the days of mourning^(A) had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,^(B) “If I have found favor in your eyes,^(C) speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, ⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath^(D) and said, “I am about to die;^(E) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^(F) in the land of Canaan.”^(G) Now let me go up and bury my father;^(H) then I will return.’”

⁶ Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”