Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
Parallel translations
- KJV And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
- BSB taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- ESV Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
- NKJV Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- NASB Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
- NLT The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.
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- Deut 34:8The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
- Num 20:29When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
- Gen 50:10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
- Deut 21:13She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
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