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Genesis 50:2-3

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50:2 Joseph instructed the physicians in his service 1  to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel. 50:3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. 2  The Egyptians mourned 3  for him seventy days. 4 

Genesis 50:26

Context
50:26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. 5  After they embalmed him, his body 6  was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

1 tn Heb “his servants the physicians.”

2 tn Heb “and forty days were fulfilled for him, for thus are fulfilled the days of embalming.”

3 tn Heb “wept.”

4 sn Seventy days. This probably refers to a time of national mourning.

5 tn Heb “son of a hundred and ten years.”

6 tn Heb “he.”



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