Genesis 50:2

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Genesis 50:2

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Embalmed

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Embalmed

So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in an ark in Egypt.

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and aromas prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.

For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare for my burial.

She has done what she could, for she has anticipated anointing my body for the burial.

And when the sabbath of the great feast of the passover was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him.

Now upon the first of the sabbaths, very early in the morning they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

Therefore Jesus said, Let her alone; against the day of my burying she has kept this;

Then Nicodemus came also, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.