14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Then Jesus said, Let her alone. She has kept this for the day of My burial.

For in putting ointment on My body, she did it for My burial.

And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And 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.

Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it with linens with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury.

And stooping down he saw the linens lying, yet he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came following him and went into the tomb. And he saw the linens lying there. And the grave-cloth that was on His head was not lying with the linens, but was wrapped up in one place by itself.

She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for the burying.

I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes.

My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the graves are ready for me.

And David said to Joab and to all the people with him, Tear your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And King David followed the bier.

And He came and touched the bier. And the ones who bore him stood still. And He said, Young man, I say to you, Arise!

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him left in the recesses of the house, Are any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hush! For not one shall mention the name of Jehovah.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large. He makes great with fire and wood. The breath of Jehovah kindles it, like a torrent of brimstone.