Genesis 50:3
“And fortie dayes were fulfilled for him, (for so are fulfilled the dayes of those which are imbalmed) and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten dayes.”
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Genesis 50:3 Context
1And Ioseph fell vpon his fathers face, and wept vpon him, and kissed him. 2And Ioseph commanded his seruants the physicians to imbalme his father: and the physicians imbalmed Israel. 3And fortie dayes were fulfilled for him, (for so are fulfilled the dayes of those which are imbalmed) and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten dayes. 4And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake vnto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I haue found grace in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, saying, 5My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die: in my graue which I haue digged for me, in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therfore let me goe vp, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come againe.
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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.
- King James Version
Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
- New American Standard Version (1995)