Genesis 50:5
My father, made me swear saying,—Lo! I, am about to die,—in my grave which I digged for myself in the land of Canaan, there, shalt thou bury me. Now, therefore, let me go up, I pray thee and bury my father, and return.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Pharaoh said,—Go up., and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because therefrom, wast thou taken,—For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.
Genesis 47:31Then he said: Come, swear to me! And he sware to him. Then did Israel bow himself down on the head of the couch.
Genesis 49:29Then commanded he them and said unto them—I, am about to be gathered unto my people, Bury me among my fathers,—within the cave, that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite:
Deuteronomy 4:22for, I, am about to die in this land, I am not to pass over the Jordan,—but, ye, are to pass over, and possess this good land.
2 Chronicles 16:14and they buried him in his own stately sepulchre, which he had hewn for himself in the city of David, and laid him on a couch which was full of sweet spices—yea of various kinds, made by the perfumer’s art,—and they burned for him with an exceeding great burning.
Psalms 79:3They have poured out their blood like water, Round about Jerusalem, With none to bury.
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 →