Genesis 50:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 20:29 : 29 When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
  • Deut 34:8 : 8 The Israelites mourned for Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.
  • Gen 50:10 : 10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.
  • Deut 21:13 : 13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.

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  • Gen 50:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1The Burials of Jacob and Joseph Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

    2Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

  • Gen 50:4-14
    11 verses
    83%

    4When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court,“If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

    5‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”

    6So Pharaoh said,“Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”

    7So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,

    8all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

    9Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.

    10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

    11When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said,“This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

    12So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.

    13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

    14After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

  • Gen 50:25-26
    2 verses
    81%

    25Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said,“God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

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

  • Gen 50:22
    75%

    22Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.

  • Deut 34:8
    75%

    8The Israelites mourned for Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.

  • Gen 47:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

    29The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him,“If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

    30but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.”

  • Exod 12:40
    72%

    40Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

  • Gen 47:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Pharaoh said to Jacob,“How long have you lived?”

    9Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

  • Gen 41:46
    71%

    46Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 37:34
    71%

    34Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.

  • Gen 46:27
    71%

    27Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

  • Num 20:29
    70%

    29When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the whole house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

  • Acts 7:14
    70%

    14So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

  • Gen 40:18
    70%

    18Joseph replied,“This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

  • Exod 1:6
    69%

    6and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.

  • Gen 50:16
    69%

    16So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died: