Genesis 50:3 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 50:3

taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

BSB

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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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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Forty 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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּמְלְאוּ־	vai.yim.le.'u-	and they were completed	H4390 →
לוֹ֙	lo	for him
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים	'ar.ba.'Im	forty	H705 →
י֔וֹם	Yom	day[s]	H3117 →
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	thus	H3651 →
יִמְלְא֖וּ	yim.le.'U	they were completed	H4390 →
יְמֵ֣י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
הַחֲנֻטִ֑ים	ha.cha.nu.Tim	the embalming<s>	H2590 →
וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ	vai.yiv.Ku	and they wept for	H1058 →
אֹת֛וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
מִצְרַ֖יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4713 →
שִׁבְעִ֥ים	shiv.'Im	seventy	H7657 →
יֽוֹם׃	Yom	day[s]	H3117 →

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Through
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.
leads to
- Acts 8:2
  God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
  Reached by 3 independent 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.
Through
Numbers 20:29
When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
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 independent paths from here.
Through
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.
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.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Genesis

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Genesis