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Genesis 50:1-3
The Message
Genesis 50:1-3
The Message
50 Joseph threw himself on his father, wept over him, and kissed him.
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2-3 Joseph then instructed the physicians in his employ to embalm his father. The physicians embalmed Israel. The embalming took forty days, the period required for embalming. There was public mourning by the Egyptians for seventy days.
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