Genesis 50:2

And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.

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In The King James Version

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

In Context

1Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.

3And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:12For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has prepared for my burial.

Mark 16:1And when the Sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices, so that when they arrived they could anoint Jesus.

John 12:7But Jesus said: “Permit her, so that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:2-7

The Burial of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,… Read the whole commentary →

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