Genesis 50:5
For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Genesis 47:31And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the bed's head.
Genesis 49:29Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.
Deuteronomy 4:22Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land.
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.
Psalms 79:3They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.
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 →