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Bible Verses about “being cremated”
The Bible contains 3 verses about being cremated across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
Genesis 3:19
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“By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."”
Amos 2:1
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“Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;”
1 Samuel 31:12
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“all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.”