Genesis 50:2
And Ioseph commaunded his seruauntes that were Phisicions to embawme his father and the Phisicios ebawmed Israel
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
1And Ioseph fell apon his fathers face and wepte apon him and kyssed him.
3.xl. dayes loge for so loge doth ye embawminge last and the Egiptians bewepte him.lxx. dayes.
Cross References
Genesis 50:26And so Ioseph dyed when he was an hundred and.x. yere olde. And they enbawmed him and put him in a chest in Egipte.
Matthew 26:12And in yt she casted this oyntment on my bodye she dyd it to burye me wt all.
Mark 16:1And when ye saboth daye was past Mary Magdalen and Mary Iacobi and Salome bought odures that they myght come and anoynt him.
John 12:7Then sayde Iesus: Let her alone agaynst the daye of my buryinge 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 →