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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 50:2 Catholic Bible: Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/50-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/50-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/50-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/50.htm">Chapter 50</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/50-1.htm" title="Genesis 50:1">◄</a> Genesis 50:2 <a href="../genesis/50-3.htm" title="Genesis 50:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/50.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/50.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/50.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/50.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Joseph gave orders for Jacob's body to be embalmed, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/50.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then Joseph ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. When the physicians embalmed Israel,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/50.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.</p><p class="hdg">the physicians.</p><p class="hdg">embalmed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/50-26.htm">Genesis 50:26</a> And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/16-14.htm">2 Chronicles 16:14</a> And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-12.htm">Matthew 26:12</a> For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/14-8.htm">Mark 14:8</a> She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/16-1.htm">Mark 16:1</a> And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/24-1.htm">Luke 24:1</a> And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/12-7.htm">John 12:7</a> Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/19-39.htm">John 19:39,40</a> And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/50.htm">Mourning and Burial for Jacob</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/26-12.htm">Matthew 26:12</a></span><br />For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/16-1.htm">Mark 16:1</a></span><br />And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/19-39.htm">John 19:39</a></span><br />And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/19-40.htm">John 19:40</a></span><br />They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/27-41.htm">Genesis 27:41</a></span><br />Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will come of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/50-1.htm">Genesis 50:1</a></span><br />And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face, weeping and kissing him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/50-26.htm">Genesis 50:26</a></span><br />And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/16-14.htm">2 Chronicles 16:14</a></span><br />And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/49-25.htm">Body</a> <a href="/genesis/47-11.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/genesis/49-29.htm">Commandeth</a> <a href="/genesis/47-11.htm">Directed</a> <a href="/mark/16-1.htm">Embalm</a> <a href="/genesis/50-26.htm">Embalmed</a> <a href="/genesis/50-1.htm">Father's</a> <a href="/genesis/48-10.htm">Folding</a> <a href="/genesis/49-28.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/genesis/50-1.htm">Joseph</a> <a href="/genesis/41-42.htm">Linen</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-3.htm">Necessary</a> <a href="/genesis/49-29.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/luke/8-43.htm">Physicians</a> <a href="/genesis/46-30.htm">Ready</a> <a href="/genesis/47-25.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/genesis/41-46.htm">Service</a> <a href="/genesis/43-11.htm">Spices</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/50-3.htm">Body</a> <a href="/genesis/50-12.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/exodus/5-6.htm">Commandeth</a> <a href="/exodus/4-12.htm">Directed</a> <a href="/genesis/50-3.htm">Embalm</a> <a href="/genesis/50-3.htm">Embalmed</a> <a href="/genesis/50-8.htm">Father's</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-34.htm">Folding</a> <a href="/genesis/50-25.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/genesis/50-4.htm">Joseph</a> <a href="/exodus/25-4.htm">Linen</a> <a href="/exodus/12-16.htm">Necessary</a> <a href="/genesis/50-12.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/16-12.htm">Physicians</a> <a href="/genesis/50-3.htm">Ready</a> <a href="/genesis/50-4.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/exodus/1-14.htm">Service</a> <a href="/exodus/25-6.htm">Spices</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/50-2.htm">Genesis 50:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: commanded directed embalm embalmed father him his in Israel Joseph physicians servants service So the Then to<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/50-2.htm">OT Law: Genesis 50:2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians (Gen. 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