Genesis 50:2
What does Genesis 50:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 50:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
- John 19:39
And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
- Mark 16:1
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
- Luke 24:1
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
- John 12:7
Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
- Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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