“taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.”
Genesis 50:3
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Connection with Abraham gathered to his people
Jacob was gathered to his people when he died in Egypt (Genesis 49:33). The embalming and seventy days of mourning came before his sons buried him at Machpelah (Genesis 50:13). He had been gathered for months by then, as Abraham was gathered before his burial (Genesis 25:8).
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