So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Parallel translations
- WEB So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
- KJV So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
- BSB So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
- NASB So Joseph died at the age of 110 years; and they embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.
- NLT So Joseph died at the age of 110. The Egyptians embalmed him, and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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Joseph dies at one hundred ten, is embalmed, and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Overview
Genesis closes with Joseph's death and a coffin in Egypt, awaiting the promised exodus. The unburied body in a foreign land leaves the story open, looking forward to God's redemption of His people. The book ends in hope deferred, anticipating the deliverance that ultimately points to the greater redemption secured in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Gen 50:2–3Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- Gen 47:28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
- Josh 24:29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
- Gen 50:22Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
- Gen 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
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