14 Bible Verses about Dead bodies

he went and took the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son, and of the men of Jabesh in Gilead, which they had stolen from the street of Bet-Shean, where the Philistines had hanged them in the days when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa. And he brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they fetched away the bones of them that were hanged, and buried them with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin, in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father. And when they had performed all that the king commanded, God was then at one with the land.

And thy carcass shall be meat unto all manner fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.

neither shall go to any dead body nor make himself unclean: no not on his father or mother,

"'He that toucheth any dead person, shall be unclean seven days.

And it chanced that certain men which were defiled with a dead corpse, that they might not offer Passover the same day, came before Moses and Aaron the same day, and said, "We are defiled upon a dead corpse, wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering unto the LORD in the due season, among the children of Israel?" And Moses said unto them, "Tarry, that I may hear what the LORD will command you."read more.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, 'If any man among you or your children after you be unclean by the reason of a corpse or is in the way far off, then let him offer Passover unto the LORD:

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave: shall be unclean seven days.

As soon as the people were put forth adoors, he went in and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.

And took the maiden by the hand, and said unto her, "Talitha, cumi," which is by interpretation, "maiden I say unto thee, arise."

And he thrust them all out at the doors, and caught her by the hand, and cried, saying, "Maid arise."

And the spirit cried, and rent him sore and came out: And he was as one that had been dead, insomuch that many said, "He is dead." But Jesus caught his hand, and lift him up, and he rose.

And he went and touched the coffin, and they that bare him stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say unto thee, arise."

And Jesus said, "Take ye away the stone." Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, "Lord by this time he stinketh. For he hath been dead four days."