14 Bible Verses about Preparation For Burial

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.

For in that she hath poured this 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 he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

And he stooping down, saw the linen cloths lying; yet he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen cloths lying; And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

And he came and touched the bier: And they that bore him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, Arise.

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.