Genesis 50:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ they spent forty days doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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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

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:4

When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, “If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows:

Numbers 20:29

When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

Deuteronomy 21:13

discard her captive’s garb, and remain in your house a full month mourning for her father and mother; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Deuteronomy 34:8

The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended.