Genesis 50:3-4

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3 H705 Forty H3117 days H4390 were fulfilled H4390 for him, for that is how many H3117 the days H2590 it takes to embalm. H4714 The Egyptians H7657 wept for him for seventy H3117 days.

4 H3117 When the days H1068 of weeping H5674 for him were past, H3130 Joseph H1696 spoke H1004 to the house H6547 of Pharaoh, H559 saying, H4672 "If now I have found H2580 favor H5869 in your eyes, H1696 please speak H241 in the ears H6547 of Pharaoh, H559 saying,

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forty days.We learn from the Greek historians, that the time of mourning was while the body remained with the embalmers, which Herodotus says was seventy days. During this time the body lay in nitre, the use of which was to dry up all its superfluous and noxious moisture: and when, in the space of 30 days, this was sufficiently effected, the remaining forty, the time mentioned by Diodorus, were employed in anointing it with gums and spices to preserve it, which was properly the embalming. This sufficiently explains the phraseology of the text.
mourned. Heb. wept. three-score.
Numbers 20:29; Deuteronomy 21:13; Deuteronomy 34:8