Thematic Bible: The art of embalming the dead practiced by
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Egyptians » The art of embalming the dead practiced by
Then Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father, - so the physicians embalmed Israel. And they fulfilled for him forty days, for so, are they wont to fulfil the days of the embalmed, - and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, - and they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.