Genesis 50:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 27:41

So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

Genesis 50:1

And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

Genesis 50:26

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 Chronicles 16:14

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.

Matthew 26:12

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

Mark 16:1

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.

Luke 24:1

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

Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.