Genesis 50:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 34:8

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

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.

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: