² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians ^(A)embalmed Israel. ³ Then the forty days to do this were fulfilled, because in this manner the days of embalming are fulfilled. And the Egyptians ^(B)wept for him seventy days.

⁴ Then the days of weeping for him were past, and Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

¹⁰ And they came to the ^[a]threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they ^(A)lamented there with a very great and ^[b]immense lamentation; and he ^[c]observed seven days of mourning for his father.