Genesis 50:2
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And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

the physicians.

embalmed.

Genesis 50:26 And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

Matthew 26:12 For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

Luke 24:1 And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

John 12:7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 19:39,40 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. . . .

Context
Mourning and Burial for Jacob
1And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him. 2And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.3And 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:12
For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

Mark 16:1
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

John 19:40
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Genesis 27:41
Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.

Genesis 50:1
And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

Genesis 50:26
And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

Lexicon
And Joseph
יוֹסֵ֤ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

directed
וַיְצַ֨ו (way·ṣaw)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order

the physicians
הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔ים (hā·rō·p̄ə·’îm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7495: To mend, to cure

in his service
עֲבָדָיו֙ (‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant

to embalm
לַחֲנֹ֖ט (la·ḥă·nōṭ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2590: To spice, to embalm, to ripen

his father
אָבִ֑יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

Israel.
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

So they
הָרֹפְאִ֖ים (hā·rō·p̄ə·’îm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7495: To mend, to cure

embalmed him,
וַיַּחַנְט֥וּ (way·ya·ḥan·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2590: To spice, to embalm, to ripen


Additional Translations
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,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.

And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel.

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.

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.

and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;
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