Genesis 50:3
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3 they spent forty days at it, for that is the full period of embalming; and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.
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1 Samuel 31:13
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13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.
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1 Chronicles 10:12
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12 all their warriors set out, recovered the corpses of Saul and his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak of Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.(A)
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Ben Sira 22:12
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12 Mourning for the dead, seven days—(A)
but for the wicked fool, a whole lifetime.
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