Genesis 50:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

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  • Gen 50:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

    2And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

  • Gen 50:4-14
    11 verses
    83%

    4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

    5My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

    6And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

    7So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

    8And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

    9And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.

    10And 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.

    11And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

    12So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

    13For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

    14And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

  • Gen 50:25-26
    2 verses
    81%

    25Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

    26So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

  • Gen 50:22
    75%

    22Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

  • Deut 34:8
    75%

    8For 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 47:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

    29And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

    30But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.

  • Exod 12:40
    72%

    40Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

  • Gen 47:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?

    9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

  • Gen 41:46
    71%

    46Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 37:34
    71%

    34Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

  • Gen 46:27
    71%

    27And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

  • Num 20:29
    70%

    29And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.

  • Acts 7:14
    70%

    14Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

  • Gen 40:18
    70%

    18Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

  • Exod 1:6
    69%

    6Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • Gen 50:16
    69%

    16So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,