Genesis 50:5
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die; in my grave, which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me: now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and I will bury my father, and return again.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, as he hath made thee swear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 47:31And he said, Swear unto me; and he swore unto him; and Israel bowed himself upon the head of the bed.
Genesis 49:29And he charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me near my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Deuteronomy 4:22For I must die in this land; I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye will go over and take possession of this good land.
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the couch which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices mixed by the apothecary's art; and they made for him a burning uncommonly great.
Psalms 79:3They have shed their blood like water all round about Jerusalem: and there is no one 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 →