Genesis 50:4-7

Good News Translation

⁴ When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, “Please take this message to the king: ^5 (A)‘When my father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the tomb which he had prepared in the land of Canaan. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will come back.’”

⁶ The king answered, “Go and bury your father, as you promised you would.”

⁷ So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph.