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Verse Genesis 50:2. _THE PHYSICIANS_] רפאים _ropheim_, the
_healers_, those whose business it was to _heal_ or restore the body
from sickness by the administration of proper _medicines_; and when
dea...
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- The Burial of Jacob
10. אטד _'āṭâd_ Atad, “the buck-thorn.”
11. מצרים אבל _'ābêl_-_mı̂tsrayı̂m_, Abel-Mitsraim,
“mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim.
This chapter records the burial of...
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CHAPTER 50 THE BURIAL OF JACOB AND JOSEPH'S RETURN AND DEATH
_ 1. The grief of Joseph (Genesis 50:1)_
2. The burial (Genesis 50:4)
3. The return to Egypt (Genesis 50:14)
4. The death of Joseph ...
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GENESIS 49:28 _ b_ - GENESIS 50:13. DEATH AND BURIAL OF JACOB.
Genesis 49:28 _b_ - Genesis 49:33;...
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HIS SERVANTS THE PHYSICIANS— The profession of physic appears to
have been carried on in ancient times by domestics; and Joseph, as
viceroy of AEgypt, may well be supposed to have kept some of these i...
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PART FORTY-SEVEN
THE LAST DAYS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH
(Genesis 48:1 to Genesis 50:26)
The Biblical Account
48 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick:...
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_AND JOSEPH COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS THE PHYSICIANS TO EMBALM HIS
FATHER: AND THE PHYSICIANS EMBALMED ISRAEL._
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. In
ancient Egypt, where...
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THE BURIAL OF JACOB, AND DEATH OF JOSEPH
2. For the importance attached by the Egyptians to the preservation of
the corpse see on Genesis 40:19. The process, which was so thorough
that mummies of Jose...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 50
JOSEPH BURIES HIS FATHER
V1 Then Joseph bent himself down over his father’s face. He wept
over him and he kissed him. V2 And Joseph told his s...
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‘To embalm’ means to put special substances on a dead body and in
it. These substances keep the body in a good state. A dead body that
people have embalmed is called a ‘mummy’. It lasts for very many...
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BURIAL OF JACOB, AND HAPPY OLD AGE OF JOSEPH.
(2) THE PHYSICIANS EMBALMED ISRAEL. — The command given first by
Jacob to Joseph (Genesis 47:29), and then urged earnestly upon all his
sons, and with...
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וַ יְצַ֨ו יֹוסֵ֤ף אֶת ־עֲבָדָיו֙ אֶת
־הָ
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JACOB'S LAST DIRECTIONS AND DEATH
Genesis 49:28; Genesis 50:1
Jacob gave a final charge as to his burial in Machpelah-that his dust
at least should be there to welcome his children and children's
chi...
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Here we have a strange and wonderful sight. Jacob was buried with
Egyptian pomp, yet in the land of promise. Thus, at last, after a
career checkered from the beginning, Jacob entered into his rest. Th...
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JOSEPH'S FINAL DAYS
Joseph had experienced Egyptians embalm Jacob's body, which took forty
days. For seventy days, the Egyptians mourned Jacob's death. Joseph
asked Pharaoh to allow him to take his fa...
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And Joseph commanded his servants the (a) physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
(a) He means those who embalmed the dead and buried them....
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Physicians, whose business it was to embalm dead bodies, with a
composition of myrrh, &c., in order to keep them from putrefaction,
(Menochius) as the Egyptian mummies are treated. (Haydock) --- The
e...
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It is an humbling view of our poor nature which death makes. The
tenderest friend must then say as Abraham did, Genesis 33:4....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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2._And Joseph commanded his servants_. Although formerly more labor
was expended on funerals, and that even without superstition, than has
been deemed right subsequently to the proof given of the resu...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 48, 49, AND 50.
Lastly, in chapter 48 besides the prophetical character important in
the history of Israel we see Joseph as heir; the double portion (mark
of...
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AND JOSEPH COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, THE PHYSICIANS, TO EMBALM HIS
FATHER,.... Which he did, not merely because it was the custom of the
Egyptians, but because it was necessary, his father's corpse bein...
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father:
and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Ver. 2. _And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians._]
Physicians, _a_ it seems, were...
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He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died in Egypt,
and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be
carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time. “Embalming i...
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1 The mourning for Iacob.
4 Ioseph getteth leaue of Pharaoh to goe to bury him.
7 The funerall.
15 Ioseph comforteth his brethren, who craued his pardon.
22 His age.
23 He seeth the third generat...
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And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his
father, an art in which the Egyptians had reached a high degree of
perfection, as the condition of most mummies shows. AND THE PHYSICIA...
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THE MOURNING FOR JACOB...
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ELEVENTH SECTION
_Joseph’s mourning. Jacob’s burial in Canaan. The brothers’
dread of Joseph. His word of peace and trust for them. Joseph’s last
provision for his own return home to Canaan after dea...
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JACOB'S BURIAL
(vs.1-14)
The sorrow of Joseph over his father's death is seen in verse 1. It is
an interesting study to consider the times in which Joseph is recorded
as weeping. In contrast to buria...
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1-6 Though pious relatives and friends have lived to a good old age,
and we are confident they are gone to glory, yet we may regret our own
loss, and pay respect to their memory by lamenting them. Gr...
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The dead corpse of his father with spices, and ointments, and other
things necessary for the preservation of the body from putrefaction as
long as might be. This Joseph did, partly, because he would c...
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On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a
more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view
Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
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THE BURIAL OF JACOB IN CANAAN (50:1-13).
Genesis 50:1
‘And Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed
him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father,...
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CONTENTS: Jacob's burial. Joseph's death.
CHARACTERS: Jacob, Joseph, brothers.
CONCLUSION: As it is an honor to die lamented, so it is a duty to
honor the dead who have been useful in the Lord. Sinc...
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Genesis 50:2. _The physicians embalmed Israel._ The Egyptians in early
times built pyramids to contain their dead, and they preserved them
from putrefaction by balsomic paste. This was performed by ph...
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_Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father_
THE HONOUR PAID TO THE DEPARTED JACOB:
I. PRIVATE.
1. The tears of his family.
2. The respect paid to last wishes.
II. PUBLIC....
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 50:1 Jacob’s body was EMBALMED so that it
could be transported to Hebron. The SEVENTY DAYS of mourning reflects
Egyptian royal practice. Jacob is being shown great honor....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 50:2. The physicians.] The Egyptians had special physicians
for each disease; the embalmers forming a class by themselves.—
GENESIS 50:3. MOURNED FOR HIM THREE SCORE AND TEN...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 50:1
AND JOSEPH FELL UPON HIS FATHER'S FACE, AND WEPT UPON HIM, AND KISSED
HIM. Joseph had no doubt closed the eyes of his revered and beloved
parent, as God had promised to the pa...
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And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and he wept upon him, and
kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days...
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the physicians. embalmed. Genesis 50:26 2 Chronicles 16:14 Matthew
26:12 Mark 14:8...
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He ordered the body to be embalmed, not only because he died in Egypt,
and that was the manner of the Egyptians, but because he was to be
carried to Canaan, which would be a work of time....