Genesis 50:6

And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 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.

7So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

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Cross References

Genesis 48:21And he said to Joseph his son: Be- hold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into 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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