Genesis 50:2
Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
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1Joseph went and hugged his father, weeping over him and kissing him.
Cross References
Genesis 50:26Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Matthew 26:12By pouring this perfume on my body she's prepared me for burial.
Mark 16:1Once the Sabbath had ended, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic ointments so that they could go and anoint Jesus' body.
John 12:7“Don't criticize her,” Jesus replied. “She did this in preparation for 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 →