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Genesis 50:2

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

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  1. Genesis 50:1

    And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

  2. Genesis 50:3

    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.

  3. Genesis 50:4

    And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.