Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Context
This verse from Genesis Chapter 50 connects to 9 cross-references. Jacob is embalmed and mourned in Egypt for seventy days, then carried in a great procession to Canaan for burial at Machpelah. After the burial, the brothers fear Joseph's retribution; he reassures them that what they intended for evil, God …
Other Translations
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;
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.
Cross References
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and …
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, …
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the …
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a …
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of …
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh …
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.