Genesis 50:2

World English Bible (2000)

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

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  • Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
  • Mark 16:1 : 1 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 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
  • Matt 26:12 : 12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
  • Mark 14:8 : 8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
  • Luke 24:1 : 1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
  • John 12:7 : 7 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

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  • Gen 50:3-8
    6 verses
    84%

    3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

    4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

    5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

    6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

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

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

  • Gen 50:1
    80%

    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

  • Gen 50:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

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

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

  • Gen 50:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

    13 for 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 burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

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

  • Gen 50:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

    17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

  • Gen 47:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,

    30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

  • Gen 48:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

    2 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

  • Gen 50:22
    73%

    22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

  • Heb 11:22
    72%

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

  • Gen 46:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

    30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

  • Gen 48:10
    72%

    10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

  • Gen 48:21
    72%

    21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 47:7
    71%

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

  • Exod 13:19
    70%

    19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."

  • Gen 48:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

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

    13 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 to him.

  • Gen 50:10
    70%

    10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

  • Gen 37:3
    69%

    3 Now 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.