Thematic Bible: Embalmer
Thematic Bible
Arts of the » Embalmer
And Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Then forty days were devoted [to this purpose] for him, for that is the customary number of days required for those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians wept and bemoaned him [as they would for royalty] for seventy days.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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