Genesis 50:3
in Genesis 50taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
KJV
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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This verse in Genesis 50
Commentary
5 notes on this verseForty days - The body it appears required this number of days to complete the process of embalming; afterwards it lay in natron thirty days more, making in the whole seventy days, according to the preceding accounts, during which the mourning was continued.
This site's exposition
Joseph fell upon his father's face
on Genesis 50:1-3
Joseph falls on his father's face, weeps over him, and kisses him. The body goes to Egyptian physicians, and the dead man is called Israel. The embalming takes forty days, and Egypt mourns him for seventy.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Forty days were fulfilled for him,....
About ten weeks was the court of Egypt in mourning for Jacob. Note, What they did in state, we should do in sincerity, weep with those that weep, and mourn with those that mourn, as being ourselves also in the body.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the Egyptians mourned, &c. It was made a period of public mourning, as on the death of a royal personage. Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, &c.--Care was taken to let it be known that the family sepulchre was provided before leaving Canaan and that an oath bound his family to convey the remains thither.
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The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּמְלְאוּ־ | vaiyimleu- | and they were completed | H4390 → | 249 times |
| לוֹ֙ | lo | for him | ||
| אַרְבָּעִ֣ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| י֔וֹם | yom | day[s] | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| כִּ֛י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כֵּ֥ן | ken | thus | H3651 → | 771 times |
| יִמְלְא֖וּ | yimleu | they were completed | H4390 → | 249 times |
| יְמֵ֣י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַחֲנֻטִ֑ים | hachanutim | the embalming<s> | H2590 → | 5 times |
| וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ | vaiyivku | and they wept for | H1058 → | 114 times |
| אֹת֛וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִצְרַ֖יִם | mitzrayim | Egypt | H4713 → | 70 times |
| שִׁבְעִ֥ים | shivim | seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| יֽוֹם׃ | yom | day[s] | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וַיִּמְלְאוּ־and they were completed
vaiyimleu-H4390 →249 times
לוֹ֙for him
lo
אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
י֔וֹםday[s]
yomH3117 →2304 times
כִּ֛יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
כֵּ֥ןthus
kenH3651 →771 times
יִמְלְא֖וּthey were completed
yimleuH4390 →249 times
יְמֵ֣י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
הַחֲנֻטִ֑יםthe embalming<s>
hachanutimH2590 →5 times
וַיִּבְכּ֥וּand they wept for
vaiyivkuH1058 →114 times
אֹת֛וֹ<obj.> him
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
מִצְרַ֖יִםEgypt
mitzrayimH4713 →70 times
שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy
shivimH7657 →91 times
יֽוֹם׃day[s]
yomH3117 →2304 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 50:10When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
it leads to
- Acts 8:2
God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Job 2:13
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
- 2 Samuel 1:17
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
- 1 Samuel 31:13
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
- Acts 8:2
Through
Numbers 20:29When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 34:8
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 34:8
Through
Deuteronomy 34:8The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
it leads to
- Numbers 20:29
When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
- Genesis 50:10
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
- Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
- Numbers 20:29
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
