Verse 3
Genesis 50:3
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mounted for him seventy days.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּמְלְאוּ ל/וֹ֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם כִּ֛י כֵּ֥ן יִמְלְא֖וּ יְמֵ֣י הַ/חֲנֻטִ֑ים וַ/יִּבְכּ֥וּ אֹת֛/וֹ מִצְרַ֖יִם שִׁבְעִ֥ים יֽוֹם
English Translation
And they filled his mourning for forty days, for so are fulfilled the days of mourning for the embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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Chapter 50 Context
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And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him.
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And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
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And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with b...
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And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have found fa...
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For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I...
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And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
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So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the...
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And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which...
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He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was it great company.
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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating...
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And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians....
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So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.
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And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave which Abraham had boug...
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And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that were in his company, after he had bur...
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Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another : Lest perhaps he should re...
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And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
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That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethr...
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And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants...
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And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God (Elohim)?
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You thought evil against me: but God (Elohim) turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at pre...
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Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
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And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the...
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After which he told his brethren: God (Elohim) will visit you after my death, and will make you go u...
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And he made them swear to him, saying: God (Elohim) will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of t...
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And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.
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