Genesis 50:2
And Ioseph commanded his seruantes the physicions, to enbaume his father, and the physicions enbaumed Israel.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
1Then Ioseph fell vpon his fathers face and wept vpon him, and kissed him.
Cross References
Genesis 50:26So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
Matthew 26:12For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.
Mark 16:1And when the Sabbath day was past, Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Salome, bought sweete oyntments, that they might come, and anoynt him.
John 12:7Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.
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 →