KJV King James Version
So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
WEB World English Bible
So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
ASV American Standard Version
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.
Surrounding context — Genesis 50
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, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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וַיָּ֣מָתH4191 · mutto dieיוֹסֵ֔ףH3130 · yo.sephJosephבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childמֵאָ֥הH3967 · me.ahhundredוָעֶ֖שֶׂרH6235 · e.sertenשָׁנִ֑יםH8141 · sha.nehyearוַיַּחַנְט֣וּH2590 · cha.natto spiceאֹת֔וֹH853 · et[Obj.]וַיִּ֥ישֶׂםH3455 · ya.samto putבָּאָר֖וֹןH727 · a.ronarkבְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃H4714 · mits.ra.yimEgypt
Cross-references
Joshua 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.Genesis 50:22And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Genesis 50:2-3And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
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