Genesis 50:2 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;

English ASV

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

English Amplified

And Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And Joseph ordered his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.

English EASY 2024

Then Joseph told some of his servants to take Jacob's body. They were men who knew how to put oil on the body so that it would not spoil. Joseph's servants did what he told them to do.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Joseph commanded his servants to prepare his father's body. (These servants were doctors.) The doctors prepared Jacob's body to be buried. They prepared the body in the special way of the Egyptians.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Then Joseph gave orders to embalm his father's body.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Then Joseph told his morticians to embalm the body.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Then he ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. When they embalmed Israel,

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Then Joseph talked to the doctors who served him. He told them to prepare the body of his father Israel to be buried. So the doctors prepared it.

English NIV

Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,

English NKJ 1982

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

English NLT

Then Joseph told his morticians to embalm the body.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

When he was able to compose himself, he ordered the royal physicians to embalm his father. So, they began the required forty-day process. The Egyptians mourned for Israel for seventy days,

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Afterwards he commanded his morticians to embalm the body.

English Tyndale 1537

And Joseph commanded his servants that were Physicians, to embalm his father, and the Physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,

Genesis 50:2 — Compare Translations