Genesis 50:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Then forty days were devoted [to this purpose] for him, for that is the customary number of days required for those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians wept and bemoaned him [as they would for royalty] for seventy days.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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.

Common English Bible

³ They mourned for him forty days because that is the period required for embalming. Then the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And 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.

Genesis 50:3 Cross References

Genesis 50:10

2 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

Genesis 50:4

And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

Numbers 20:29

And speaking against God end Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Deuteronomy 21:13

8 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Deuteronomy 34:8

Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to him: