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 a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

And they buried him in his own sepulchers which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

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

She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

And when the sabbath 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 day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.

And there came also Nicodemus (who at the first came to Jesus by night) and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight.