14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Jesus therefore said, Let her alone. She has keep it for the day of my burial.

For by pouring this ointment upon my body, she did it for my burial.

And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

So they took the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, just as is the custom of the Jews to bury.

And after stooping down, he sees the linen cloths lying, yet he entered not. Simon Peter therefore comes following him, and he entered into the sepulcher. And he sees the linen cloths lying, and the face cloth that was on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped up in one place separately.

She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand 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 spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.

And David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

And having come, he touched the coffin, and the men carrying it stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise.

And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No, then he sh

For a Topheth is prepared of old, yea, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of LORD kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.