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Genesis 50:2

IsraelJoseph

1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 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.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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BSB
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
KJV
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
WEB
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
ASV
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
DARBY
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
BLB
And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
ÅB
Og Josef befalte legene som han hadde i sin tjeneste, å balsamere hans far; og legene balsamerte Israel.
OTB
Josef instruerte legene i sin tjeneste om å balsamere hans far Israel. Så legene balsamerte ham.
B1930
Og Josef bød lægene som han hadde i sin tjeneste, å balsamere hans far; og lægene balsamerte Israel.

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Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 16:14

    And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

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  • Genesis 50:26

    So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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  • John 19:39–40

    And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

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  • Mark 16:1

    And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

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  • Matthew 26:12

    For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

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  • John 12:7

    Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

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  • Mark 14:8

    She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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  • Luke 24:1

    Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

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