Genesis 50:3
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
In context
1 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
3 taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that
5 my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
Genesis 50:3 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.