* forty days.
   We learn from the Greek historians, that the time of mourning
   was while the body remained with the embalmers, which
   Herodotus says was seventy days.  During this time the body
   lay in nitre, the use of which was to dry up all its
   superfluous and noxious moisture:  and when, in the space of
   30; days, this was sufficiently effected, the remaining forty,
   the time mentioned by Diodorus, were employed in anointing it
   with gums and spices to preserve it, which was properly the
   embalming.  This sufficiently explains the phraseology of the
   text.

 * mourned.  Heb. wept.  three-score.
  Nu 20:29  De 21:13  34:8