11 Bible Verses about embalming
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And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long, for so long doth the embalming last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days.
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
And there came also Nicodemus which at the beginning came to Jesus by night, and brought of myrrh and aloes mingled together about a hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And he bought a linen cloth, and took him down and wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb, that was hewn out of the rock. And rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
And took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a hewn tomb, wherein was never man before laid.
And when the Sabbath day was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Joseph, and Salome, bought ointments, that they might come and anoint him.
On the morrow after the Sabbath, early in the morning, they came unto the tomb and brought the odours which they had prepared, and other women with them.
Sara was a hundred and twenty seven years old, for so long lived she, and then died in a head-city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up from the corpse, and talked with the sons of Heth saying,read more.
"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
And Jesus said, "Take ye away the stone." Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, "Lord by this time he stinketh. For he hath been dead four days."
And he that was dead, came forth bound hand and foot, with grave bonds after the manner as they were wont to bind their dead withal. And his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, "Loose him, and let him go."
From Thematic Bible
The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,
The Dead » Embalming
And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,
Embalming » How performed by the jews
And they returned, and prepared odours, and ointments; but rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandment.
And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,
Embalming » Of jesus
And when the Sabbath day was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Joseph, and Salome, bought ointments, that they might come and anoint him.
And he bought a linen cloth, and took him down and wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb, that was hewn out of the rock. And rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
Embalming » An attempt to defeat God's purpose
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Embalming » Time required for
for so long doth the embalming last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days.
Embalming » Not always practised by the jews
And Jesus said, "Take ye away the stone." Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, "Lord by this time he stinketh. For he hath been dead four days."
Embalming » Of jacob
And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long, for so long doth the embalming last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days.
Embalming » Of asa
And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
Embalming » Of joseph
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
