14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Jesus, therefore, said - Let her alone, that, for the day of my burial, she may observe it;

For, she, pouring this perfume upon my body, so as to prepare me for burial, did it.

And they fulfilled for him forty days, for so, are they wont to fulfil the days of the embalmed, - and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Then Joseph commanded his servants the physicians, to embalm his father, - so the physicians embalmed Israel.

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

So they received the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen-bandages with the spices, - just as it is, a custom, with the Jews to prepare for burial.

and, stooping aside, beholdeth, lying, the linen-bandages, nevertheless, he entered not. So Simon Peter also cometh, following him, and entered into the tomb, and vieweth the linen-bandages lying, - and the napkin, which was upon his head, not, with the linen-bandages, lying, but apart, folded up into one place.

What she had, she used, - She took it beforehand to anoint my body for the burial;

I will go down with thee to Egypt, and will bring thee up, yea wholly up, - and, Joseph, shall lay his own hand upon thine eyes.

My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.

And David said unto Joab, and unto all the people who were with him, - Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and lament aloud before Abner. And, King David himself, was following the bier.

And, going forward, he touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still; and he said - Young man! to thee, I say, Arise!

And a man's near of kin, even he who is about to burn the bones, shall carry him out of the house, when he shall say to him that is in the hinder parts of the house - Are there yet any with thee? and he shall say - No one. Then shall he say - Hush! for we must not invoke the name of Yahweh.

For there hath been set in order, beforehand a Topheth, Yea, the same, for the king, hath been prepared He hath made it deep - made it large, - The circumference thereof is for fire and wood in abundance, the breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, is ready to kindle it.