Verse 3
Genesis 50:3
Free Bible Version
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This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 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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Joseph went and hugged his father, weeping over him and kissing him.
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Then Joseph instructed the physicians who worked for him to embalm his father's body. So the physici...
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This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70...
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Once the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to Pharaoh's officials, “If you'd be so kind, please...
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my father made me swear an oath, telling me, ‘You must bury me in the tomb I've prepared for myself...
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Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”
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Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's officials went with him—all Pharaoh's senior advis...
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as well as Joseph's family, his brothers, and his father's family. They only left the small children...
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They were accompanied by chariots and horsemen—a really large procession.
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When they got to the threshing floor of Atad, on the other side of the Jordan, they wept loudly in s...
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The Canaanites who lived there watched the ceremony of mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. They...
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They carried his body to Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, whi...
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After they had buried their father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt along with all those w...
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However, now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became worried, saying, “Maybe Joseph is...
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So they sent a message to Joseph to tell him, “Before your father died, he gave this order:
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‘This is what you are to tell Joseph: Forgive your brothers their sins, the bad things they did to y...
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Then his brothers themselves came and fell down before Joseph and said, “We are your slaves!”
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“You don't need to be afraid!” he told them. “I don't stand in the place of God (Elohim), do I?
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While you planned bad things for me, God (Elohim) planned it for good so that in the end many lives...
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So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calme...
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Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's whole family. He lived to be 110,
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and saw three generations of his son Ephraim, and the sons of Makir, Manasseh's son, were placed in...
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“I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God (Elohim) will be with you, and he will l...
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Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, “When God (Elohim) comes to be with you, you m...
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Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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