1
Yoseph returned to Natzaret and soon became ill.
2
The sickness was severe, unlike the health that had marked most of his life.
3
The tradition calculates his years: forty years before his first marriage, forty-nine years with his first ishah, and the remaining years after her death and after Miryam entered his house.
4
Whatever the exact chronology preserved by later transmission, the narrative emphasizes that Yoseph reached extreme old age before death finally came upon him.