Gen 50:3-10 | TSK | e4.org | 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 threescore ; ,

‏ Genesis 50:3-10

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

threescore Num 20:29; Deut 21:13, Deut 34:8

the days Gen 50:10

Joseph Esth 4:2

found grace Gen 18:3

made me Gen 47:29-31

I die Gen 50:24, Gen 48:21, Gen 49:29-30; Deut 4:22; 1Sam 14:43

I have 2Chr 16:14; Isa 22:16; Matt 27:60

bury me Gen 3:19; Job 30:23; Ps 79:3; Eccl 6:3, Eccl 12:5, Eccl 12:7

let me go Matt 8:21-22; Luke 9:59-60

as he made Gen 48:21

and with him Gen 14:16

only their Exod 10:8-9, Exod 10:26; Num 32:24-27

chariots Gen 41:43, Gen 46:29; Exod 14:7, Exod 14:17, Exod 14:28; 2Kgs 18:24; Song 1:9; Acts 8:2

the threshingfloor This place was situated, according to Jerome, between the Jordan and the city of Jericho, two miles from the former, and three from the latter, where Bethagla was afterwards built. Procopius of Gaza states the same. As aataad signifies thorns, the place might have been remarkable for their production; though all the versions except the Arabic consider it as a proper name. As Moses wrote or revised his history on the east side of Jordan, the term beyond Jordan, in his five books, means westward of Jordan; but in other parts of Scripture it generally means eastward.

beyond Gen 50:11; Deut 1:1

seven days Gen 50:4; Num 19:11; Deut 34:8; 1Sam 31:13; 2Sam 1:17; Job 2:13; Acts 8:2