Genesis 50:3 (WEB)
Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
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“They all prolonged their mourning over him for thirty days and as many nights.” — editor's note: According to Gen. l. 3, the Egyptian mourning was seventy days, but there is no precise mention of the length of the Israelites’ mourning, except that at Atad,…
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