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Genesis 50:2 (Listen)

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to wembalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

Mark 16:1 (Listen)

The Resurrection

16 uvWhen the Sabbath was past, wMary Magdalene, wMary the mother of James, and iSalome xbought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

John 19:39-40 (Listen)

39 uNicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus1 by night, came vbringing a mixture of wmyrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds2 in weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and xbound it in ylinen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

Footnotes

[1] 19:39 Greek him
[2] 19:39 Greek one hundred litras; a litra (or Roman pound) was equal to about 11 1/2 ounces or 327 grams