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Genesis 46:4

I will go to Egypt with you, and I promise to bring you back again. And Joseph will personally close your eyes when you die.”

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In The King James Version

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

In Context

3“I am God, the God of your father! Don't be afraid to go to Egypt, because I will turn you and your descendants into a great nation.

5Then Jacob left Beersheba. His sons took him, their children, and their wives to Egypt using the wagons Pharaoh had sent.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:14However, I will punish the nation that makes them slaves, and later on they will leave, taking many valuable possessions with them.

Genesis 48:21Then Israel said to Joseph, “I'm going to die soon, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 50:5my father made me swear an oath, telling me, ‘You must bury me in the tomb I've prepared for myself in Canaan. Please allow me to go and bury my father and then I'll return.’”

Genesis 50:24“I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will be with you, and he will lead you out of this country to the land that he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Isaiah 43:1But now this is what the Lord says to Jacob, the one who created you; to Israel, the one who formed you: “Don't be afraid! I have saved you! I have called you by name; you are mine!

Matthew Henry on Genesis 46:2-5

Jacob Sacrifices at Beersheba. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his… Read the whole commentary →

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