Genesis 50:2
Good News Translation
Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.

New Revised Standard Version
Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

Contemporary English Version
Joseph gave orders for Jacob's body to be embalmed,

New American Bible
Then Joseph ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. When the physicians embalmed Israel,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

the physicians.

embalmed.

Genesis 50:26 And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

Matthew 26:12 For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

Luke 24:1 And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

John 12:7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 19:39,40 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. . . .

Context
Mourning and Burial for Jacob
1And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him. 2And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.3And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:12
For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

Mark 16:1
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

John 19:40
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Genesis 27:41
Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

Genesis 50:1
And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

Genesis 50:26
And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

Genesis 50:1
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