14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

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John 12:7

Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.

Matthew 26:12

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

Genesis 50:3

And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.

Genesis 50:2

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

Genesis 50:26

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

John 19:40

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

John 20:5-7

and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in. Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and entered into the tomb; and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, that was upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

Mark 14:8

She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

Genesis 46:4

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.

2 Samuel 3:31

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

Luke 7:14

And he came nigh and touched the bier: and the bearers stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

Amos 6:10

And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.

Isaiah 30:33

For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

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