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] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from 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 certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, {you are about to die}; call Joshua and present yourselves in [the] tent of assembly, so that I may instruct him." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in [the] tent of assembly.

When your days [are] full and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

For {we must certainly die}, and [we are] as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.

The days of David came near [for him] to die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.

For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?

Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom

What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah

And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,

Put

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh

Bury me not

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

And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.

By faith Joseph, [as he] was dying, mentioned about the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his bones.

General references

Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them.