² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

²⁶ So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

¹⁴ And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds `of spices' prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

¹ And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the `mother' of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

¹² For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

⁸ She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

¹ But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

⁷ Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.