14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

and stooping and looking in, he *saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in. And so Simon Peter also *came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he *saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.

She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes.”

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.

And He came up and touched the coffin; and the bearers came to a halt. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise!”

Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will answer, “Keep quiet. For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned.”

For Topheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.