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Want to know what the Bible says about Burying The Dead? Here are 96 Bible verses about Burying The Dead 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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Matthew 8:22 NIV
But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
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Daniel 12:2 NIV
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Acts 2:29 NIV
“Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.
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James 2:26 NIV
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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Deuteronomy 21:23 NIV
you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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Luke 9:60 NIV
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
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Genesis 3:19 NIV
By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”
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Genesis 23:4 NIV
“I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.
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John 5:28 NIV
“Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
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Ecclesiastes 6:3 NIV
A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
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