Genesis 50:2

American Standard Version (1901)

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
  • Mark 16:1 : 1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
  • John 19:39-40 : 39 And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 40 So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
  • Matt 26:12 : 12 For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
  • Mark 14:8 : 8 She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
  • Luke 24:1 : 1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
  • John 12:7 : 7 Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 50:3-8
    6 verses
    84%

    3And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.

    4And 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,

    5My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

    6And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

    7And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

    8and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 50:1
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    1And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

  • Gen 50:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

    25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

    26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

  • Gen 50:12-14
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    78%

    12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

    13for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

    14And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  • Gen 50:16-17
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    75%

    16And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

    17So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

  • Gen 47:29-30
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    29And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;

    30but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

  • Gen 48:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

    2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

  • Gen 50:22
    73%

    22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

  • Heb 11:22
    72%

    22By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

  • Gen 46:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

    30And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.

  • Gen 48:10
    72%

    10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

  • Gen 48:21
    72%

    21And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 47:7
    71%

    7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Exod 13:19
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    19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

  • Gen 48:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

    13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

  • Gen 50:10
    70%

    10And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

  • Gen 37:3
    69%

    3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.