“And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.”
Taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. The seventy-day Egyptian mourning for Jacob is the full period reserved for the most honored dead in Egypt — the same period mourned for Pharaoh himself. The application: the man who arrived in Egypt as a foreign shepherd dies honored by the full mourning period of the greatest nation in the world.
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