11 Bible Verses about embalming
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was hewn in stone, where never man had yet lain.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spake unto the children of Heth, saying,read more.
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body decayeth; for he hath been dead four days.
He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
From Thematic Bible
The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » Embalming
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers art: and they made a very great burning for him.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and 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 the custom of the Jews is to bury.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
The Dead » Embalming
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers art: and they made a very great burning for him.
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and 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 the custom of the Jews is to bury.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Embalming » How performed by the jews
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers art: and they made a very great burning for him.
So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
Embalming » Learned by the jews in egypt
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Embalming » Of jesus
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
Embalming » An attempt to defeat God's purpose
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Embalming » Time required for
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.
Embalming » Not always practised by the jews
Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body decayeth; for he hath been dead four days.
Embalming » Of jacob
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.
Embalming » Of asa
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Embalming » Of joseph
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
