3 taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Genesis 50:3
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Genesis 50:9–11
9 Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession. 10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days. 11 When the Canaanit…
Testament of Joseph 2:82–84
82 And when he had said these things he stretched out his feet, and died at a good old age. (T12) 83 And all Israel mourned for him, and all Egypt, with a great mourning. (T12) 84 And when the children of Israel went out of Egypt, they took with them the bones of Joseph, and they b… (T12)
Genesis 50:25–26
25 And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.” 26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
Numbers 20:28–29
28 After Moses had removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 29 When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for h…
1 Maccabees 9:19–21
19 Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the tomb of his ancestors at Modin. (WEB) 20 They wept for him. All Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said, (WEB) 21 “How the mighty has fallen, the savior of Israel!” (WEB)
1 Maccabees 13:25–27
25 Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him at Modin, the city of his fathers. (WEB) 26 All Israel made great lamentation over him, and mourned for him many days. (WEB) 27 Simon built a monument on the tomb of his father and his kindred, and raised it… (WEB)
Deuteronomy 34:7–9
7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished. 8 The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end. 9 Now Josh…
Testament of Simeon 3:13–15
13 And when Simeon had made an end of commanding his sons, he slept with fathers, an hundred and twenty years old. (T12) 14 And they laid him in a wooden coffin, to take up his bones to Hebron. And they took them up secretly during a war of the Egyptians. For the bones of… (T12)
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