Thematic Bible: Embalmer
Thematic Bible
Arts of the » Embalmer
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.