The Egyptians Mourned for Jacob 70 days

                                                                                         

Comparative Study between the Bible versus the Quran (50) – A: The first part
(Chapter 50:1-10)

The Old Testament Verses from 1-10 are talking about Jacob died ; the Egyptian embalmed him and mourned for him 70 days and Joseph buried him in the land of Canaan.
The New Testament Verses from 1-10 are talking about the dispute between the Jews and Jesus about the Sabbath (See: B: The second part).
The Noble Quran Verses from 1-10 are talking about the Quran as a glorious book, the disbelievers, the afterlife, the heavens, the earth, the rain ,the plants, etc. (see: C: The third part - I and II).
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Old Testament:

Chapter 50 in the Old Testament is Genesis 50;
it is composed of 26 verses.
Verses from 1-10 are talking about Jacob died and Joseph wept upon him, Joseph commanded the Egyptian physicians to embalm Jacob and they did. the Egyptians mourned for Jacob 70 days. Joseph took permission from Pharaoh to go up, and bury Jacob in his grave in the land of Canaan. Joseph and many people (Egyptians and Israelites) buried Jacob and they made a mourning for him seven days.
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Genesis 50 (King James Version)

1] And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2] And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3] 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.

4] And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5] My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6] And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7] And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8] And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9] And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10] And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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The smart reader is better postpone answering this question: "Is the Quran quoted from the Bible?" until he reads the second and the third parts (I and II) of this article.

About the author:
Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology,
Head of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit,
Ain-Shams University., Egypt.
And, President of The Egyptian Society of Inventors.
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers


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