Thematic Bible: The art of embalming the dead practiced by
Thematic Bible
Egyptians » The art of embalming the dead practiced by
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.