Genesis 48:21

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Summary

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Behold

Land

Genesis 12:5

Genesis 26:3

Genesis 37:1

General references

Hebrews 9:17

Bible References

Behold

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.

I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;

Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said;

Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.

Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Land

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

General references

For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?