Genesis 50:2 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 50:2

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

KJV

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WEB

And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

YLT

and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;

ASV

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

DBT

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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10 verses on the floor

2 Chronicles 16:14
And 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.
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.
Mark 16:1
And 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.
John 19:39–40
And 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.
Matthew 26:12
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

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), not only because he died in Egypt, and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time, and therefore it was necessary the body should be preserved as well as it might be from putrefaction.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thirty days were alloted for the completion of this process; forty more were spent in anointing it with spices; the body, tanned from this operation, being then washed, was wrapped in numerous folds of linen cloth--the joinings of which were fastened with gum, and then it was deposited in a wooden chest made in the form of a human figure.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

GEN 50:2MRK 16:1 LUK 23:56
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 50:2MRK 16:1 MRK 14:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 50:2MRK 16:1 MAT 28:1-10
GEN 50:2MRK 16:1 JHN 20:1-10
GEN 50:22CH 16:14 MRK 16:1
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 50:2MRK 16:1 MRK 15:40
GEN 50:22CH 16:14 2CH 21:19
GEN 50:2MAT 26:12 JHN 12:7

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