Thematic Bible: Exacts a pledge from his brothers to convey his remains to canaan
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Joseph » Son of jacob » Exacts a pledge from his brothers to convey his remains to canaan
And when the days of weeping were ended, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favour in your eyes, speak unto Pharaoh and tell him, how that
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."
and were translated into Shechem, and were put in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for money of the sons of Hamor, at Shechem.
And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long,
By faith Joseph, when he died, remembered the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment of his bones.
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.
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."