Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 1 of 3: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History; Part II., Elzabad-Juttah
It does not appear that embalming, properly so called, was practised by the Hebrews. Asa. Was laid in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kind of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art (2 Ch. Xvi. And by the. Tender care of Nicodemus the body of Jesus was wrapped in linen cloths, with spices, a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight as the manner of the Jews is to bury (john xix. 32.
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