Genesis 50:26
in Genesis 50So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
KJV
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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This verse in Genesis 50
Commentary
6 notes on this verseSo Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old,.... The exact age assigned him by Polyhistor (x), from Demetrius an Heathen.
This site's exposition
placed it in a coffin in Egypt
The Hebrew word for the coffin is aron, the same word used of the ark of the covenant. Matthew Henry notes that Joseph chose a burial in Canaan long deferred over a splendid one in Egypt. Genesis ends with an embalmed man in a coffin in Egypt.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
The text goes on: "Joseph passed away at one hundred and ten." Why did it indicate to us his age too? For you to learn how long he had been entrusted with the control of Egypt. He was seventeen when he went down to Egypt, and it was when he reached the age of thirty that he appeared before Pharaoh and interpreted his dreams. Joseph then held complete control of Egypt for eighty years. Do you see how the rewards were greater than the hardships and the recompense manifold? For thirteen years he struggled with temptations, suffering servitude, that illicit accusation, ill treatment in prison. Since he nobly bore everything with thankfulness, accordingly he attained generous rewards even in the present life. Consider, after all, I ask you, that as a result of that short period that he endured servitude and imprisonment Joseph occupied a royal position for eighty years. For proof that it was by faith that he did all this and for the same motive gave directions about the transfer of his bones, listen to Paul's words: "It was by faith that at the point of death Joseph gave a reminder about the exodus of the sons of Israel."
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture
Yet care ought to be taken of the dead bodies of the saints, in the belief of their resurrection; for there is a covenant with the dust, which shall be remembered, and a commandment is given concerning the bones.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old - בן מאה ועשר שנים ben meah vaeser shanim; literally, the son of a hundred and ten years. Here the period of time he lived is personified, all the years of which it was composed being represented as a nurse or father, feeding, nourishing, and supporting him to the end.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֣מָת | vaiyamot | and he died | H4191 → | 839 times |
| יוֹסֵ֔ף | yosef | Joseph | H3130 → | 213 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | a son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מֵאָ֥ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| וָעֶ֖שֶׂר | vaeser | and ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| שָׁנִ֑ים | shanim | years | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וַיַּחַנְט֣וּ | vaiyachantu | and people embalmed | H2590 → | 5 times |
| אֹת֔וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וַיִּ֥ישֶׂם | vaiyisem | and he was put | H3455 → | |
| בָּאָר֖וֹן | baaron | in the coffin | H727 → | |
| בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃ | bemitzrayim | in Egypt | H4714 → | 641 times |
וַיָּ֣מָתand he died
vaiyamotH4191 →839 times
יוֹסֵ֔ףJoseph
yosefH3130 →213 times
בֶּן־a son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
מֵאָ֥הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
וָעֶ֖שֶׂרand ten
vaeserH6235 →176 times
שָׁנִ֑יםyears
shanimH8141 →877 times
וַיַּחַנְט֣וּand people embalmed
vaiyachantuH2590 →5 times
אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> him
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
וַיִּ֥ישֶׂםand he was put
vaiyisemH3455 →
בָּאָר֖וֹןin the coffin
baaronH727 →
בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃in Egypt
bemitzrayimH4714 →641 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
it leads to
- Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Genesis 35:28
And Isaac lived 180 years.
- Psalms 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- 1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- Job 14:1
Through
Joshua 24:29Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
it leads to
- Judges 2:8
And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
- 2 Timothy 4:7–8
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
- Judges 2:8
Through
Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
it leads to
- Psalms 90:10
The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Psalms 90:10
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Chrysostom, HOMILIES ON GENESIS 67.22; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.