Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.
New American Standard Bible
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians
King James Version
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Holman Bible
He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.
International Standard Version
After this, he issued orders to his physician servants to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.
A Conservative Version
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
American Standard Version
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Amplified
Then Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm (mummify) his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel (Jacob).
Darby Translation
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
And Joseph will command his servants the physicians, to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed IsraeL
King James 2000
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Modern King James verseion
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,
NET Bible
Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
New Heart English Bible
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
Then Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father, - so the physicians embalmed Israel.
Webster
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
World English Bible
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Youngs Literal Translation
and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;
Themes
Children » Instances of » Joseph
The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
Disease » Prevention and cure of » Physicians
Disease » Healed » Physicians employed in
Egypt » History of israel in » Jacob's death and burial
Egyptians » The art of embalming the dead practiced by
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
Joseph » Son of jacob » Exacts a pledge from his brothers to convey his remains to canaan
Joseph » Son of jacob » Mourns the death of his father
Mourning » The egyptians mourned for jacob for seventy days
Prevention and cure of diseases » Physicians
Rulers' » Righteous » Instances of » Pharaoh, in his treatment of jacob and his family
Interlinear
Tsavah
`ebed
'ab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 50:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob's Burial
1 And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. 2 And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. 3 And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 50:26
So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
2 Chronicles 16:14
And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.
Mark 16:1
And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.
John 19:39-40
And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.
Matthew 26:12
For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
Mark 14:8
She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
Luke 24:1
But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.
John 12:7
Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.