11 Bible Verses about embalming
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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. Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, in which man was never before laid.
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.
And Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,read more.
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him, Lord, by this time his body is offensive: for he hath been dead four days.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go.
From Thematic Bible
The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
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.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
The Dead » Embalming
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.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Embalming » How performed by the jews
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested on the sabbath, according to the commandment.
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.
Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Embalming » Of jesus
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.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.
Embalming » An attempt to defeat God's purpose
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Embalming » Time required for
And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Embalming » Not always practised by the jews
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him, Lord, by this time his body is offensive: for he hath been dead four days.
Embalming » Of jacob
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Embalming » Of asa
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.
Embalming » Of joseph
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
