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 unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Put

And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

Bury me not

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

General references

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: