KJV King James Version
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
WEB World English Bible
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
ASV American Standard Version
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;
Surrounding context — Genesis 50
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, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
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וַיְצַ֨וH6680 · tsa.vahto commandיוֹסֵ֤ףH3130 · yo.sephJosephאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עֲבָדָיו֙H5650 · e.vedservant/slaveאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔יםH7495 · ra.pahto healלַחֲנֹ֖טH2590 · cha.natto spiceאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אָבִ֑יוH1 · avfatherוַיַּחַנְט֥וּH2590 · cha.natto spiceהָרֹפְאִ֖יםH7495 · ra.pahto healאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃H3478 · yis.ra.elIsrael
Cross-references
Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.John 19:39-40And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight].Mark 16:1And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.Matthew 26:12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial.John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.Luke 24:1Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.Mark 14:8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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