14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Then said Jesus, Let her go; for the day of my interment has she kept this.

For she, casting this perfumed oil upon my body, did to prepare me for interment,

And they will fill up forty days for him: for so will they fill up the days of the embalmed: and the Egyptians will weep for him seventy days.

And Joseph will command his servants the physicians, to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed IsraeL

And Joseph will die, the son of a hundred and ten years; and they will embalm him and will put in an ark in Egypt

Then took they the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen bandages with spices, as the custom is to the Jews to prepare a body for interment.

And having stood stooping, he sees the linen bandages lying; yet he did not go in. Then comes Simon Peter following him, and he came into the tomb, and sees the linen bandages lying, And the napkin, which was upon his head, not lying with the linen bandages, but separately inwrapped in one place.

And what she had, she has done: she has undertaken beforehand to perfume my body for the burial.

I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will raise thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes

My spirit being destroyed my days were extinct; the graves are for me.

And David will say to Joab and to all the people which were with him, Rend your garments and gird you with sack-cloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David went after the litter.

And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise.

And his friend lifted him up, and he burning him, and bringing forth the bones out of the house, and he said to him by the sides of the house: Yet with thee? And he said, No more. And he said, Silence: for not to make mention of the name of Jehovah.

For tophet was set in order from yesterday; also it was prepared; for the king, he made deep, he made broad, its pile fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah as a torrent of pitch burned upon it