Genesis 50:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 sore 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 50:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Gen 50:4-14
    11 verses
    83%

    4When 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.'"

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

    7Joseph 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,

    8all 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.

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

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

    11When 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, the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

    12His sons did to him just 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, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

    14Joseph 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%

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

    26So 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%

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

  • Deut 34:8
    75%

    8The 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%

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

    29The 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,

    30but 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%

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

  • Gen 47:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

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

    9Jacob 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%

    46Joseph 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%

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

  • Gen 46:27
    71%

    27The 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%

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

  • Acts 7:14
    70%

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

  • Gen 40:18
    70%

    18Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.

  • Exod 1:6
    69%

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

  • Gen 50:16
    69%

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