Genesis 50:3 meaning and explanation
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Genesis 50:3, Berean Standard Bible
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These verses follow Jacob's death in Egypt, where his son Joseph served Pharaoh. Joseph had his father embalmed, a process the text says took forty days, and the Egyptians mourned seventy days in all.
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