'Body' in the Bible

Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

The Lord said to her,“Two nations are in your womb;And two peoples will be separated from your body;And one people shall be stronger than the other;And the older shall serve the younger.”

And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body.

The first son came out reddish his entire body was covered with hair so they named him Esau.

But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits (cisterns, underground water storage); then we will say [to our father], ‘A wild animal killed and devoured him’; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!”

And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from off you—and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body.”

All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.