11 Bible Verses about embalming
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Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain.
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. Then Abraham rose from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,read more.
“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Jesus *said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
From Thematic Bible
The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and
So they took the body of Jesus and
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians
The Dead » Embalming
They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and
So they took the body of Jesus and
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians
Embalming » How performed by the jews
Then they returned and
They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled
So they took the body of Jesus and
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians
Embalming » Of jesus
Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
Embalming » An attempt to defeat God's purpose
You will eat bread,
Till you
Because
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
“I am
Embalming » Time required for
Now forty days were
Embalming » Not always practised by the jews
Jesus *said,
Embalming » Of jacob
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Embalming » Of asa
They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled
Embalming » Of joseph
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and
