Embalming
Unknown to early patriarchs -- Ge 23:4. Learned by the Jews in Egypt -- Ge 50:2,26. Time required for -- Ge 50:3. How performed by the Jews -- 2Ch 16:14; Lu 23:56; Joh 19:40. Not always practised by the Jews -- Joh 11:39. An attempt to defeat God's purpose -- Ge 3:19.