11 Bible Verses about embalming
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And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days {were required for it}, for thus [are] the days {required for} embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
And Nicodemus--the one who had come to him formerly at night--also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes [weighing] about a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.
And [after] purchasing a linen cloth [and] taking him down, he wrapped [him] in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb.
And he took [it] down [and] wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed.
And [when] the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome purchased fragrant spices so that they could go [and] anoint him.
Now on the first [day] of the week, at very early dawn, they came back to the tomb bringing the fragrant spices which they had prepared.
And {Sarah lived} one hundred and twenty-seven years; [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites [and] said,read more.
"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.
Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."
The one who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."
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The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made [by] the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor.
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.
And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
The Dead » Embalming
And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made [by] the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor.
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.
And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Embalming » How performed by the jews
And they returned [and] prepared fragrant spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made [by] the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor.
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Embalming » Of jesus
And [when] the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome purchased fragrant spices so that they could go [and] anoint him.
And [after] purchasing a linen cloth [and] taking him down, he wrapped [him] in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb.
Embalming » An attempt to defeat God's purpose
By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.
Embalming » Time required for
Forty days {were required for it}, for thus [are] the days {required for} embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Embalming » Not always practised by the jews
Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."
Embalming » Of jacob
And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days {were required for it}, for thus [are] the days {required for} embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Embalming » Of asa
And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made [by] the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor.
Embalming » Of joseph
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
