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A Calm Evening, Promising a Bright Morning
... influenced by the Egyptian belief which underlies their practice of embalming the
body ... It is noteworthy that Jacob desired to be laid beside his ancestors, and ...
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Chapter l
... The process of embalming, described already in some detail by Herodotus, involved
the ... Jacob and Joseph are the only two Israelites of whom the Scriptures tell ...
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Man's Passions and God's Purpose
... Jacob's undisguised partiality for Joseph was a fault too, which wrought like yeast
on ... to Egypt, where luxury, and especially the custom of embalming, opened a ...
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A Bundle of Myrrh
... through which the mercies of God come down like the angels upon Jacob's ladder to ...
The Egyptians used it in embalming the dead: and we find Nicodemus and the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/a bundle of myrrh.htm

Jer. 6:16 the Good Way.
... had walked for 1300 years,"the paths of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,"the paths ... By
embalming those truths in our Articles and Liturgy, by incessantly pressing ...
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The Gospel According to St. John
... by entering the praetorium (xviii.28), and the Jewish method of embalming (xix.40). ...
to the better-known Bethany (xi.18); the "deep" well of Jacob at Sychar (iv ...
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Eastern Wise-Men, or Magi, visit Jesus, the New-Born King.
... reign of Edomite Herod began to fulfill the first part of Jacob's prophecy by ... The
gum was chiefly used in embalming dead bodies, as it prevented putrefaction. ...
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Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested ...
... When Jacob from his brother Esau fled, He by the hand of providence was led To
Padan-aram, in Assyria, where He serv'd his uncle Laban twenty year; During ...
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Homilies on the Gospel of John.
... His stay at Samaria was for rest, [303]ib.; abrogated the law of meats in speaking
to the Samaritan woman, [304]109; shows Himself greater than Jacob, [305]112 ...
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The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 4. <. ...
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Nave's Topical Index

Genesis 50:2,3
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Nave's Topical Index

Subtopics

Embalming: An Attempt to Defeat God's Purpose

Embalming: How Performed by the Jews

Embalming: Learned by the Jews in Egypt

Embalming: Not Always Practised by the Jews