Genesis 50:6

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Go up, bury thy father, as he constrained thee to swear.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

In Context

5My 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.

7So Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Genesis 48:21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to 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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