And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.
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