Gen 50:3-10, Jer 9:17-20, Mar 5:38-39 | TSK | STEP | 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. three-score.

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. three-score.

Nu 20:29; De 21:13; 34:8

the days.

Joseph.

Es 4:2

found grace.

18:3

made me.

47:29-31

Lo, I die.

24; 48:21; 49:29,30; De 4:22; 1Sa 14:43

I have.

2Ch 16:14; Isa 22:16; Mt 27:60

bury me.

3:19; Job 30:23; Ps 79:3; Ec 6:3; 12:5,7

let me go.

Mt 8:21,22; Lu 9:59,60

as he made.

48:21

and with him.

14:16

only their.

Ex 10:8,9,26; Nu 32:24-27

chariots.

41:43; 46:29; Ex 14:7,17,28; 2Ki 18:24; So 1:9; Ac 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.

11; De 1:1

seven days.

4; Nu 19:11; De 34:8; 1Sa 31:13; 2Sa 1:17; Job 2:13; Ac 8:2