Genesis 50:5
My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Go up, bury thy father, as he constrained thee to swear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.
Genesis 47:31And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel did reverence, leaning on the top of his staff.
Genesis 49:29And he said to them, I am added to my people; ye shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Deuteronomy 4:22For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but ye are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in the sepulcher which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled it with spices and all kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.
Psalms 79:3Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, 1 Stir up thy power, 1 And come to deliver us. 1
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 →