Genesis 50:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.

Genesis 50:2 Cross References

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 fell on his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

2 Chronicles 16:14

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

Matthew 26:12

In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial.

Mark 14:8

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

Mark 16:1

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

Luke 24:1

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

John 12:7

Jesus said, “Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial.