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# that he collapsed on the face of his father
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The term "he collapsed" is an idiom for being overcome. AT: "that he fell on his father in grief" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# his servants the physicians
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"his servants who took care of dead bodies"
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# to embalm his father
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To "embalm" is a special way of preserving a dead body before it is buried. AT: "to prepare his father's body for burial" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# They took forty days
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"They took 40 days" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# seventy days
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"70 days" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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