Verse 3

And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

Referenced Verses

• Num 20:29 : 29 And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.
• Deut 34:8 : 8 For thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for Moses in the table-lands of Moab, till the days of weeping and sorrow for Moses were ended.
• Gen 50:10 : 10 And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.
• Deut 21:13 : 13 And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.