Genesis 50:3

³ Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

Arcana Coelestia # 6529

6529. 'Only their young children' means innocence. This is clear from the meaning of 'young children' as innocence, dealt with in 430, 3183, 5608.

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

'The land of Goshen,' as in Genesis 46:28, signifies the innermost parts of the natural mind.