Genesis 50:5
my 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.’”
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6Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father as he made you swear to do.”
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
Genesis 47:31“Swear to me that you will,” he said. Joseph swore that he would. Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.
Genesis 49:29Then he gave them the following instructions: “I'm going to die soon. Bury me with my forefathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Deuteronomy 4:22So I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I have to die here in this land. But you will cross over and occupy that good land.
2 Chronicles 16:14He was buried in the tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. They placed him on a bed full of spices, perfumed oils, and fragrances. Then they made a great fire to honor him.
Psalms 79:3They have poured out the blood of Jerusalem's people like water all through the city; no one remains to bury the dead.
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 →