Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence."
New American Standard Bible
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely
King James Version
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Holman Bible
So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”
International Standard Version
So Joseph made all of Israel's other children make this promise: "Because God is certainly going to take care of you, you are to carry my bones up from here."
A Conservative Version
And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from here.
American Standard Version
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Amplified
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel (Jacob) swear [an oath], saying, “God will surely visit you and take care of you [returning you to Canaan], and [when that happens] you shall carry my bones up from here.”
Bible in Basic English
Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.
Darby Translation
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence.
Julia Smith Translation
And Joseph will cause the sons of Israel to swear, saying, God reviewing, will review you and bring ye up my bones from here.
King James 2000
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."
Modern King James verseion
And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
NET Bible
Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place."
New Heart English Bible
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
The Emphasized Bible
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear saying, - God will, surely concern, himself for you, So shall ye carry up my bones, from hence.
Webster
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
World English Bible
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
Youngs Literal Translation
And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, 'God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this place.'
Themes
Brother » Joseph's, for his brethren
Burial » The jews anxious to be interred in their family places of
Burial » Directions given about, before death » By joseph
Burying places » Attachment to the burial places of the fathers
The Dead » Places of burial of » Attachment to the burial places of the fathers
Holy land » Was the burial place of the patriarchs
Jews, the » Called » Children of israel
Joseph » Son of jacob » Exacts a pledge from his brothers to convey his remains to canaan
Joseph » Son of jacob » Was a prophet
Joseph » Son of jacob » Death of
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 50:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Death Of Joseph
24 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 unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence." 26 And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
Cross References
Exodus 13:19
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, take my bones therefore away hence with you."
Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem, for a hundredth pieces of silver, which parcel became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Hebrews 11:22
By faith Joseph, when he died, remembered the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment of his bones.
Genesis 47:29-31
When the time drew nigh that Israel must die, he sent for his son Joseph and said unto him, "If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt:
Genesis 50:5
my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again."
Acts 7:16
and were translated into Shechem, and were put in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for money of the sons of Hamor, at Shechem.