Threescore and ten dayes] The time of mourning for the dead among the Hebrewes was thirty dayes, Numbers 20:29. Deuteronomy 21:13. and Deuteronomy 34:8. and the Egyptians mourning seventie dayes, may seeme to out-sorrow them in time, but for degree of griefe doubtlesse the Israelites exceeded them; But in this mourning, it is like there was a meeting of the Egyptians and Israelites custome together; the Israelites agreed with the Egyptians in the long and curious ceremony of embalming for forty dayes, which were dayes of sadnesse, because they were spent in applications to the dead; and the Egyptians agreed with the Hebrews in their thirty dayes of mourning, in the places fore-mentioned. There is afterward mention made of a mourning by the space of seven dayes, vers. 10. those were solemnized in Canaan somewhat neere the buriall, but whether next before, or next after it, is uncertain these were spent in more serious sorrow, the greater number were rather ceremonies of mourning, and consisted much in forbearance of white and glorious apparell, of delicacy in dressing and trimming the body and the haire.