Genesis 47:29

Israel Settles In Goshen

²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was a hundred and forty-seven years. ²⁹ And when the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and [promise to] deal loyally and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt, ³⁰ but when I lie down with my fathers [in death], you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place [at Hebron in the cave of Machpelah].” And Joseph said, “I will do as you have directed.”

Found Favor in Your Eyes

Found Favor in Your Sight

In Me

Mercy and Truth

Take an Oath

Deal Loyally

Kindness And Faithfulness

Egypt

Israel

Joseph

Genesis 24:2

Abraham said to his servant [Eliezer of Damascus], the oldest of his household, who had charge over all that Abraham owned, “Please, put your hand under my thigh [as is customary for affirming a solemn oath],

Genesis 24:49

So now if you are going to show kindness and truth to my master [being faithful to him], tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right or to the left [and go on my way].”

Deuteronomy 31:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

1 Kings 2:1

When David’s time to die approached, he gave instructions to Solomon his son, saying,

Genesis 50:24-25

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up out of this land to the land which He promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob [to give you].”

Genesis 3:19

“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Samuel 7:12

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down [in death] with your fathers (ancestors), I will raise up your descendant after you, who shall be born to you, and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will certainly die and are like water that is spilled on the ground and cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not [simply] take away life, but devises plans so that the one who is banished is not driven away from Him.

Job 7:1

“Is not man forced to labor on earth?
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

Job 14:14

“If a man dies, will he live again?
I will wait all the days of my struggle
Until my change and release will come.

Job 30:23

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no mention of You;
In Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) who will praise You and give You thanks?

Psalm 49:7

None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him—

Psalm 49:9

So that he should live on eternally,
That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

Acts 7:15-16

And Jacob (Israel) went down into Egypt, and there he died, as did our fathers;

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,

Hebrews 11:22

By faith Joseph, when he was dying, referred to [the promise of God for] the exodus of the sons of Israel [from Egypt], and gave instructions concerning [the burial of] his bones [in the land of the promise].