Genesis 50:3

50:3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.3 The Egyptians mourned4 for him seventy days.5

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3	tn Heb “and forty days were fulfilled for him, for thus are fulfilled the days of embalming.”
4	tn Heb “wept.”
5	sn Seventy days. This probably refers to a time of national mourning.