Seventy-day Bereavement

2 Corinthians 5:18

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Genesis 50:3

• Forty

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

Genesis 50:10

• Lamentations
• Mourning
• Seven

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Job 2:13

• Seven

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.