14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Therefore Jesus said, Let her alone; against the day of my burying she has kept this;

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

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.

And Joseph commanded his slaves, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in an ark in Egypt.

And they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews to bury.

And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet he did not go in. Then came Simon Peter following him and went into the sepulchre and saw the linen clothes lying and the napkin, that had been placed over his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

She has done what she could, for she has anticipated anointing my body for the burial.

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.

Then David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. And King David himself followed the bier.

And he came and touched the bier, and those that bore him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

And their uncle shall take each one and burn them to bring out the bones out of the house and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hold thy tongue, for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

For Tophet is ordained of yesterday for the king of Babylon, it is also prepared; he has deepened and enlarged the pile of her fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone kindles it.