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Want to know what the Bible says about Embalming? Here are 12 Bible verses about Embalming from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Genesis 23:4 NIV
“I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.
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Genesis 50:2 NIV
Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,
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Genesis 50:26 NIV
So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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Genesis 50:3 NIV
taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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2 Chronicles 16:14 NIV
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes, and they made a huge fire in his honor.
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Luke 23:56 NIV
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
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John 19:40 NIV
Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
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John 11:39 NIV
“Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
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Genesis 3:19 NIV
By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”
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Genesis 50:2-3 NIV
2 Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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Mark 15:46 NIV
So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
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Mark 16:1 NIV
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body.
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