Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(basket). [BURIAL.]
Concise Bible Dictionary:
Being made in Egypt and for an embalmed body, Joseph’s coffin doubtless resembled the ancient mummy cases (Gen. 50:26). They were ornamental cases larger than European coffins.
From Manners and Customs of the Bible:
Genesis 50:26. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Though so much care was taken in ancient Egypt to embalm the body, there were many who were buried without coffins. The mention of the fact here that “Joseph was put in a coffin,” shows the high rank to which he had attained. His coffin was probably the outside receptacle or sarcophagus described in the note on Genesis 50:2-3. Whether it was of wood or of stone we have no means of knowing; the latter material would more probably be used for so exalted a personage.
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