Genesis 47:29

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Summary

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

Must die

Put

Genesis 24:2

Bury me not

Genesis 50:24

Acts 7:15

Hebrews 11:22

General references

Genesis 50:12

Bible References

Must die

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.

And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

Put

And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

Bury me not

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

General references

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: