Genesis 50:24
And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of this place:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
25And he died being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 12:7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:17Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.
Genesis 15:14But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
Genesis 15:18That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
Genesis 21:1And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
Genesis 28:13And the Lord leaning upon the ladder, saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 50:23-26
The Death of Joseph. ( b. c. 1635.) 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,… Read the whole commentary →