Genesis 50:6

And Pharaoh said to him, “Go up and bury your father, just as he made you swear.”

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In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

In Context

5For my father made me swear, saying: ‘See, I am dying. You shall bury me in my sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Therefore, I shall go up and bury my father, and then return.”

7So as he went up, all the elders of the house of Pharaoh went with him, along with every patriarch in the land of Egypt,

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Cross References

Genesis 48:21And he said to his son Joseph: “See, I am dying, and God will be with you, and he will lead you back to the land of your fathers.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:2-7

The Burial of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,… Read the whole commentary →

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