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Genesis 50:3

in Genesis 50

taking 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.

This verse in Genesis 50

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 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.

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 physicians, and the verse calls the dead man Israel. The embalming takes forty days, and Egypt mourns him for seventy, and the man who wrestled for a new name is preserved by Egyptian craft.

This site's exposition

the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days

Egypt mourns a foreign shepherd for seventy days, close to the seventy-two days the historian Diodorus reports for a king. Israel later mourns Moses and Aaron thirty days each, at Deuteronomy 34:8 and Numbers 20:29. Egypt honours Joseph through his father.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Forty days were fulfilled for him,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 50:10

    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.

    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.

  • Through

    Numbers 20:29

    When 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.

  • 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.

    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.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.

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.