Genesis 50:26

“So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old, etc.] The exact age assigned him by Polyhistor f1936, from Demetrius an Heathen. The Jewish writers f1937 say, that he died the first of the twelve patriarchs, though he was the youngest of them; he died, according to Bishop Usher f1938 , in the year of the world 2369, and before Christ 1635: and they embalmed him; his servants, the physicians, according to the manner of the Egyptians, and as his father Jacob had been embalmed, (see Gill on “<015002>Genesis 50:2”), and he was put into a coffin in Egypt; in an ark or chest, very probably into such an one in which the Egyptians had used to put dead bodies when embalmed; which Herodotus f1939…”

“and they embalmed him--[See on Gen 50:2]. His funeral would be conducted in the highest style of Egyptian magnificence and his mummied corpse carefully preserved till the Exodus. Next: Exodus Introduction”

“- The Burial of Jacob 10. אטד 'āṭâd Atad, “the buck-thorn.” 11. מצרים אבל 'ābêl-mı̂tsrayı̂m, Abel-Mitsraim, “mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim. This chapter records the burial of Jacob and the death of Joseph, and so completes the history of the chosen family, and the third bible for the instruction of man. Genesis 50:1-3 After the natural outburst of sorrow for his deceased parent, Joseph gave orders to embalm the body, according to the custom of Egypt. “His servants, the physicians.” As the grand vizier of Egypt, he has physicians in his retinue. The classes and functions of the physicians in Egypt may be learned from Herodotus (ii. 81-86). There were special physicians for…”

“50:26 Joseph’s death signified the end of his generation (see study notes on 25:7-8; 35:1-29) and of the patriarchal age. From this point forward, God dealt with Israel as a nation. • Joseph’s body was kept in Egypt as a pledge of hope for slaves awaiting the Promised Land (see Exod 13:19; Heb 11:39-40). He was eventually buried in Shechem (see Josh 24:32), where Jacob had originally sent him (Gen 37:13).”