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Genesis 50:3-5
New English Translation
Genesis 50:3-5
New English Translation
3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.[a] The Egyptians mourned for[b] him seventy days.[c]
4 When the days of mourning[d] had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court,[e] “If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,[f] 5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,[g] “I am about to die. Bury me[h] in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
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- Genesis 50:3 tn Heb “and forty days were fulfilled for him, for thus are fulfilled the days of embalming.”
- Genesis 50:3 tn Heb “wept for.”
- Genesis 50:3 sn Seventy days. This probably refers to a time of national mourning.
- Genesis 50:4 tn Heb “weeping.”
- Genesis 50:4 tn Heb “the house of Pharaoh.”
- Genesis 50:4 tn Heb “in the ears of Pharaoh.”
- Genesis 50:5 tn Heb “saying.”
- Genesis 50:5 tn The imperfect verbal form here has the force of a command.
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