Genesis 50:1-9 and Mark 2:18-22 (NIV)

Genesis 50:1-9
The Death of Jacob

1  Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. 

2  Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 

3  taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

4  When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
5  ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”
6  Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
7  So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—
8  besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. 
9  Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.

Mark 2:18-22
Jesus Questioned About Fasting

18  Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
19  Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. 
20  But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
21  “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 
22  And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”