KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 50:3
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
WEB World English Bible
Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
ASV American Standard Version
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.
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.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיִּמְלְאוּ־H4390 · ma.leto fillלוֹ֙H9033 · ohimאַרְבָּעִ֣יםH705 · ar.ba.imfortyי֔וֹםH3117 · yomdayכִּ֛יH3588 · kiforכֵּ֥ןH3651 · kenrightיִמְלְא֖וּH4390 · ma.leto fillיְמֵ֣יH3117 · yomdayהַחֲנֻטִ֑יםH2590 · cha.natto spiceוַיִּבְכּ֥וּH1058 · ba.khahto weepאֹת֛וֹH853 · et[Obj.]מִצְרַ֖יִםH4713 · mits.riEgyptianשִׁבְעִ֥יםH7657 · shiv.imseventyיֽוֹם׃H3117 · yomday
Cross-references
Numbers 20:29And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house of Israel.Deuteronomy 34:8And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended.Deuteronomy 21:13And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.Genesis 50:10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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