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Genesis 50:3
Genesis 50:3 is verse 3 of Genesis chapter 50, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
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Genesis 50:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
3 taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that
5 my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 20:29When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
Deuteronomy 21:13and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
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.