26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. …
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-26)Here is, I. The prolonging of Joseph’s life in Egypt: he lived to be a hundred and ten years old , Gen. 50:22. Having honoured his father, his days were long in the land which, for the present, God had given him; and it was a great mercy to his relations that God continued him so long, a support and comfort to them. II. The building up of Joseph’s family: he lived to see his great-grand-children b…
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