Holy Scripture
Genesis 50:3
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
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1And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept on him, and kissed him.
2And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel.
— Genesis 50:3 —
4And when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favor in your sight, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.