Genesis 50:2 · KJV
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
— Genesis 50:2
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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. {mourned: Heb. wept}
Genesis 50 — Context
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3And 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. {mourned: Heb. wept}
4And 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,
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. {had made: Heb. had digged}
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.
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.
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}.
Matthew 26:12
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did {it} for my burial.
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.
John 12:7
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.