Genesis 50:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 20:29 : 29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
  • Deut 34:8 : 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
  • Gen 50:10 : 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.
  • Deut 21:13 : 13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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  • Gen 50:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Gen 50:4-14
    11 verses
    83%

    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.

    9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

    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.

    11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

    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 50:25-26
    2 verses
    81%

    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 50:22
    75%

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

  • Deut 34:8
    75%

    8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

  • Gen 47:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

    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."

  • Exod 12:40
    72%

    40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

  • Gen 47:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

    9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

  • Gen 41:46
    71%

    46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 37:34
    71%

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

  • Gen 46:27
    71%

    27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

  • Num 20:29
    70%

    29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

  • Acts 7:14
    70%

    14 Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

  • Gen 40:18
    70%

    18 Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

  • Exod 1:6
    69%

    6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • Gen 50:16
    69%

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