“Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 50 contains 26 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.