Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics. "
— Genesis 50:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
“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.”
Joseph, realizing this, fell upon his father’s face, weeping and kissing him.
And he instructed his servant physicians to embalm his father with aromatics.
And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.
And when the time for mourning was fulfilled, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: “If I have found favor in your sight, speak to the ears of Pharaoh.
For my father made me swear, saying: ‘See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.”