Genesis 50:2

Jacob's Burial

¹ Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him. ² Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. ³ Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Forty Days

Israel

Jacob

Joseph

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

2 Chronicles 16:14

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 with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

Mark 16:1

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.

John 19:39-40

Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

Matthew 26:12

For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

Luke 24:1

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

John 12:7

Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.