forty days.

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.

民數記 20:29
全會眾，就是以色列全家，見亞倫已經死了，便都為亞倫哀哭了三十天。

申命記 21:13
脫去被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裡哀哭父母一個整月，然後可以與她同房。你做她的丈夫，她做你的妻子。

申命記 34:8
以色列人在摩押平原為摩西哀哭了三十日，為摩西居喪哀哭的日子就滿了。