14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Then they took Jesus' body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus' head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.

She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.

I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes."

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!" Now King David followed behind the funeral bier.

Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"

When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" He will respond, "Be quiet! Don't invoke the Lord's name!"

For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The Lord's breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.