Catholic Public Domain Version
"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. "
— Genesis 50:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And 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.”
“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. ”
“Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.”
“They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.”
“And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.”
“And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.”
“And 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.”
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.”
And Pharaoh said to him, “Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.”