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Want to know what the Bible says about Burial? Here are 111 Bible verses about Burial from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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2 Chronicles 24:25 NIV
When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded. His officials conspired against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
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John 19:41 NIV
At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.
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Genesis 23:9 NIV
so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”
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Matthew 27:66 NIV
So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
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John 20:1 NIV
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
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Matthew 23:27 NIV
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
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Matthew 23:29 NIV
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
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Isaiah 14:15 NIV
But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
    to the depths of the pit.
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Matthew 8:28 NIV
When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.
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Isaiah 65:4 NIV
who sit among the graves
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
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