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 to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Put

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,

Bury me not

And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.

General references

Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,