American Standard Version
"And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. "
— Genesis 50:2, American Standard Version
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
“Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
“Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.”
“And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.”
“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.”
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.