So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Joseph died at one hundred and ten years of age, and after his death his body was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt. That coffin was left to remain among the Israelites in Egypt rather than being taken at once to Canaan. Its continued presence reminded them that Egypt was not their permanent home but only a temporary dwelling place. It stood as a pledge that God would surely visit them and bring them up to the promised land, and that when He did they were to carry Joseph's bones with them.
Joseph died at one hundred and ten years of age, and after his death his body was embalmed and laid in a coffin in Egypt. That coffin was left to remain among the Israelites in Egypt rather than being taken at once to Canaan. Its continued presence reminded them that Egypt was not their permanent home but only a temporary dwelling place. It stood as a pledge that God would surely visit them and bring them up to the promised land, and that when He did they were to carry Joseph's bones with them.