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Embalming.

From: The New Topical Textbook By: Reuben Archer Torrey

Unknown to early patriarchs. Gen. 23:4⁴I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. (Genesis 23:4).

Learned by the Jews in Egypt. Gen. 50:2, 26²And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. (Genesis 50:2)
²⁶So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 50:26).

Time required for. Gen. 50:3³And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. (Genesis 50:3).

How performed by the Jews. 2 Chr. 16:14¹⁴And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made 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 apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him. (2 Chronicles 16:14). Luke 23:56⁵⁶And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. (Luke 23:56), with John 19:4⁴Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. (John 19:4).

Not always practiced by the Jews. John 11:39³⁹Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. (John 11:39).

An attempt to defeat God's purpose. Gen. 3:19¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Genesis 3:19).

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• Disobedience to God.

• Divination.

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• Doctrines of the Gospel, the.

• Dragon, the.

• Drink Offering.

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• Embalming.

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