Genesis 50:3

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forty days were required for it, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 34:8

And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

Numbers 20:29

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.

Deuteronomy 21:13

And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; 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 lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:4

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,