4. When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court, “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,
5. ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, “I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
6. So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”
7. So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him – the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
8. all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.