SinaiGenesis 50:4
World English Bible
When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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Genesis 50:4 in other translations
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis 50:4 in context
- 2Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- 3Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
- 4When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
- 5‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”
- 6Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”