Talmud for Genesis 50:3
וַיִּמְלְאוּ־לוֹ֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם כִּ֛י כֵּ֥ן יִמְלְא֖וּ יְמֵ֣י הַחֲנֻטִ֑ים וַיִּבְכּ֥וּ אֹת֛וֹ מִצְרַ֖יִם שִׁבְעִ֥ים יֽוֹם׃
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
337Line 1 in the editio princeps. This sermon is an appendix to the preceding one; also found in Gen. Rabba 100.Rebbi Abbahu said, these seventy days between letters and letters378Between Haman’s letters on Nisan 13 (Esth. 3:12) and Mordokhai”s letters of Sivan 23 (Esth. 8:9). If the months are alternatingly of 29 and 30 days, there are exactly 70 days between the dates. correspond to the seventy days in which the Egyptians performed kindness with our father Jacob379Gen. 50:3..
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