14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.

In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

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

So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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

And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.

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

I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."

"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.

Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise."

And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still anyone with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD."

For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.