Genesis 50:3

WEB

³Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

KJV

³And 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.

BSB

³taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

FBV

³This took a full 40 days, the normal time for the process, and the Egyptians mourned for him for 70 days.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 34:8

⁸The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

Numbers 20:29

²⁹When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Genesis 50:10

¹⁰They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

¹³She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.