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RBT Translation:
And He-Adds is commanding אֶת-his slaves, אֶת-the Ones-who-mend,1380 to spice אֶת-his father, and the Ones-who-mend are spicing אֶת-El-Strives.
LITV Translation:
And Joseph commanded the physicians, his servants, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
ESV Translation:
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel.

Footnotes

1380

Strong’s #7495, rapha, to sew together, mend. Traditionally interpreted as “to heal”. See Gesenius who notes that this word “imitates the sound of a person sewing rapidly.”