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Genesis 50:2
And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.
Genesis 50:2 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 50:2 in other translations
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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In context
1 And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.
2 And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.
3 And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.
4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:
5 My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.
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