14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

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John 12:7

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

Matthew 26:12

For [when] this woman poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] in order to prepare me for burial.

Genesis 50:3

Forty days {were required for it}, for thus [are] the days {required for} embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Genesis 50:2

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

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

John 19:40

So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.

John 20:5-7

And bending over to look, he saw the [strips of] linen cloth lying there, though he did not go in. Then Simon Peter also came following him, and he went into the tomb and saw the [strips of] linen cloth lying there, and the facecloth that was on his head--not lying with the [strips of] linen cloth, but folded up separately in one place.

Mark 14:8

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

Genesis 46:4

I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes."

2 Samuel 3:31

David said to Joab and to all the people who [were] with him, "Tear your clothing and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." Now King David [was] following after the bier.

Luke 7:14

And he came up [and] touched the bier, and those who were carrying [it] stopped. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"

Amos 6:10

And [if] one's relative, who burns [the body], lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "[Are there] any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because [we] must not invoke the name of Yahweh.

Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood {abundant}. The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.

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