And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him (b) threescore and ten days.
(b) They were more excessive in lamenting than the faithful.
Verse Genesis 50:3. _FORTY DAYS_] The body it appears required this number of days to complete the process of embalming; afterwards it lay in _natron_ thirty days more, making in the whole seventy day...
- The Burial of Jacob 10. אטד _'āṭâd_ Atad, “the buck-thorn.” 11. מצרים אבל _'ābêl_-_mı̂tsrayı̂m_, Abel-Mitsraim, “mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim. This chapter records the burial of...
CHAPTER 50 THE BURIAL OF JACOB AND JOSEPH'S RETURN AND DEATH _ 1. The grief of Joseph (Genesis 50:1)_ 2. The burial (Genesis 50:4) 3. The return to Egypt (Genesis 50:14) 4. The death of Joseph ...
GENESIS 49:28 _ b_ - GENESIS 50:13. DEATH AND BURIAL OF JACOB. Genesis 49:28 _b_ - Genesis 49:33;...
AND FORTY DAYS WERE FULFILLED FOR HIM— The reader will find, in the first volume of Univ. Hist. 8vo. p. 489, a minute account of the manner of embalming, which was done without disfiguring the body; s...
PART FORTY-SEVEN THE LAST DAYS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH (Genesis 48:1 to Genesis 50:26) The Biblical Account 48 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick:...
_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._ Forty days were fulfilled for him. Diodo...
THE BURIAL OF JACOB, AND DEATH OF JOSEPH 2. For the importance attached by the Egyptians to the preservation of the corpse see on Genesis 40:19. The process, which was so thorough that mummies of Jose...
‘To embalm’ means to put special substances on a dead body and in it. These substances keep the body in a good state. A dead body that people have embalmed is called a ‘mummy’. It lasts for very many...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 50 JOSEPH BURIES HIS FATHER V1 Then Joseph bent himself down over his father’s face. He wept over him and he kissed him. V2 And Joseph told his s...
FORTY DAYS. — Herodotus (ii. 86) describes the process of embalming as occupying seventy days, but he was speaking of what he saw at Thebes, whereas Memphis was the Egyptian capital in Joseph’s time;...
וַ יִּמְלְאוּ ־לֹו֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים יֹ֔ום כִּ֛י...
JACOB'S LAST DIRECTIONS AND DEATH Genesis 49:28; Genesis 50:1 Jacob gave a final charge as to his burial in Machpelah-that his dust at least should be there to welcome his children and children's chi...
Here we have a strange and wonderful sight. Jacob was buried with Egyptian pomp, yet in the land of promise. Thus, at last, after a career checkered from the beginning, Jacob entered into his rest. Th...
JOSEPH'S FINAL DAYS Joseph had experienced Egyptians embalm Jacob's body, which took forty days. For seventy days, the Egyptians mourned Jacob's death. Joseph asked Pharaoh to allow him to take his fa...
John 19:39 It is proper to pay tokens of respect to our deceased friends, but do not forget what JESUS hath said: Matthew 8:22....
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
3._And forty days were fulfilled for him_. We have shown already that Moses is speaking of a ceremonial mourning; and therefore he does not prescribe it as a law, or produce it as an example which it...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 48, 49, AND 50. Lastly, in chapter 48 besides the prophetical character important in the history of Israel we see Joseph as heir; the double portion (mark of...
FORTY DAYS WERE FULFILLED FOR HIM,.... Were spent in embalming him: FOR SO ARE FULFILLED THE DAYS OF THOSE THAT ARE EMBALMED; so long the body lay in the pickle, in ointment of cedar, myrrh and cinna...
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. Ver. 3. _And the Egyptians mourned for him...
_Forty days were fulfilled for him_ That is, for embalming him, this time being, at the least, requisite to go through the process. But according to Herodotus, the body often remained at the embalmer'...
1 The mourning for Iacob. 4 Ioseph getteth leaue of Pharaoh to goe to bury him. 7 The funerall. 15 Ioseph comforteth his brethren, who craued his pardon. 22 His age. 23 He seeth the third generat...
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those embalmed, so long it took for the entire process of embalming; and the EGYPTIANS MOURNED FOR HIM THREESCORE AND TEN DAYS,...
THE MOURNING FOR JACOB...
ELEVENTH SECTION _Joseph’s mourning. Jacob’s burial in Canaan. The brothers’ dread of Joseph. His word of peace and trust for them. Joseph’s last provision for his own return home to Canaan after dea...
JACOB'S BURIAL (vs.1-14) The sorrow of Joseph over his father's death is seen in verse 1. It is an interesting study to consider the times in which Joseph is recorded as weeping. In contrast to buria...
MOURNED: _ Heb._ wept SENT: _ Heb._ charged...
1-6 Though pious relatives and friends have lived to a good old age, and we are confident they are gone to glory, yet we may regret our own loss, and pay respect to their memory by lamenting them. Gr...
FOR HIM, i.e. for his embalming; that so the drugs or spices which were applied might more effectually reach to all the parts of the dead body, and keep it from corruption. And the effect of their dil...
On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
Genesis 50:3 Forty H705 days H3117 required H4390 (H8799) days H3117 required H4390 (H8799) embalmed H2590 ...
THE BURIAL OF JACOB IN CANAAN (50:1-13). Genesis 50:1 ‘And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father,...
CONTENTS: Jacob's burial. Joseph's death. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, brothers. CONCLUSION: As it is an honor to die lamented, so it is a duty to honor the dead who have been useful in the Lord. Sinc...
Genesis 50:2. _The physicians embalmed Israel._ The Egyptians in early times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by ph...
_Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father_ THE HONOUR PAID TO THE DEPARTED JACOB: I. PRIVATE. 1. The tears of his family. 2. The respect paid to last wishes. II. PUBLIC....
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:1 Jacob’s body was EMBALMED so that it could be transported to Hebron. The SEVENTY DAYS of mourning reflects Egyptian royal practice. Jacob is being shown great honor....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 50:2. The physicians.] The Egyptians had special physicians for each disease; the embalmers forming a class by themselves.— GENESIS 50:3. MOURNED FOR HIM THREE SCORE AND TEN...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 50:1 AND JOSEPH FELL UPON HIS FATHER'S FACE, AND WEPT UPON HIM, AND KISSED HIM. Joseph had no doubt closed the eyes of his revered and beloved parent, as God had promised to the pa...
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days...
forty days. mourned. Heb. wept. three-score. Numbers 20:29 Deuteronomy 21:13 Deuteronomy 34:8...
He observed the ceremony of solemn mourning for him. Forty days were taken up in embalming the body, which the Egyptians had an art of doing so curiously, as to preserve the very features of the face...