Genesis 50:26

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

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

In Context

25Joseph required an oath of the Israelites, saying, “When God remembers you, as he surely will, then you must carry up my bones from here.”

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Cross References

Genesis 47:9Jacob answered, “I have lived a hundred and thirty years; few and hard have been the years of my life, and they have not been as many as those that my ancestors lived on earth.”

Genesis 50:2Then Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Jacob;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:23-26

The Death of Joseph. ( b. c. 1635.) 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,… Read the whole commentary →

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