Verse 2

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
• 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.
• Mark 16:1 : 1 And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.
• John 19:39-40 : 39 And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.
• Matt 26:12 : 12 For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
• Mark 14:8 : 8 She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
• Luke 24:1 : 1 But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.
• John 12:7 : 7 Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.