EMBALMING

Passages on this topic · 6

• Genesis 50:2

  Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

• Genesis 50:26

  So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 16:14

  They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

• Mark 15:46

  He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

• Mark 16:1

  When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.