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Questions From ReadersThe Watchtower—1976 | August 1
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Rather than employing Egyptian embalming techniques that involved treating the body for weeks,a the Hebrews buried their dead soon after death, even on the same day.—Deut. 21:23; Gen. 50:2, 3.
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Questions From ReadersThe Watchtower—1976 | August 1
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a Over a period of weeks the Egyptians would use special drugs and soak the body in natron (sodium carbonate) so that the corpse might resist decomposition for years, even centuries.
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Questions From ReadersThe Watchtower—1976 | August 1
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Among the ancient Egyptians embalming was customary. They evidently did it because of their belief that the preserved body was necessary so the person’s soul could eventually be reunited with it.
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