Genesis 50:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Common English Bible

² Joseph then ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.

Genesis 50:2 Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.

Genesis 50:26

And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Mark 16:1

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

Matthew 26:12

By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial.

John 12:7

Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.

Luke 24:1

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial.

Genesis 27:41

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 50:1

Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.