Genesis 50:2

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

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

3And forty days were completed to him; for so are completed the days of the embalmed; and the Mizraee mourned for him seventy days.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:26And Joseph died, the son of a hundred and ten years, and they embalmed him, and laid him in an ark in Mizraim.

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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