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Genesis 50:3-5
English Standard Version
Genesis 50:3-5
English Standard Version
3 Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians (A)wept for him seventy days.
4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, (B)“If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb (C)that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”
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