King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 50:2
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
Verse in context — Genesis 50
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And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
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And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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