Genesis 50:5

My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

In Context

4And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, 'If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

6and Pharaoh saith, 'Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.'

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou [art], and unto dust thou turnest back.'

Genesis 47:31and he saith, 'Swear to me;' and he sweareth to him, and Israel boweth himself on the head of the bed.

Genesis 49:29And he commandeth them, and saith unto them, 'I am being gathered unto my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite;

Deuteronomy 4:22for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land.

2 Chronicles 16:14and they bury him in [one of] his graves, that he had prepared for himself in the city of David, and they cause him to lie on a bed that [one] hath filled [with] spices, and divers kinds of mixtures, with perfumed work; and they burn for him a burning — very great.

Psalms 79:3They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

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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