Genesis 47:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

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  • Gen 24:2 : 2 And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
  • Gen 24:49 : 49 And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.
  • Deut 31:14 : 14 At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.
  • 1 Kgs 2:1 : 1 Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,
  • Gen 50:24-25 : 24 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. 25 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.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
  • 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
  • Acts 7:15-16 : 15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers; 16 And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • Heb 11:22 : 22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:30-31
    2 verses
    86%

    30 But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.

    31 And he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to him: and Israel gave worship on the bed's head.

  • Gen 50:1-7
    7 verses
    79%

    1 And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

    2 And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

    3 And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

    4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

    5 My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

    6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

    7 So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

  • Gen 48:21
    79%

    21 Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 46:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29 And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.

    30 And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.

  • Gen 49:29
    77%

    29 And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

  • Gen 50:24-26
    3 verses
    76%

    24 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.

    25 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.

    26 So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

  • Gen 47:28
    75%

    28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

  • Gen 46:4
    75%

    4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

  • Gen 48:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10 Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.

    11 And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.

    12 Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.

    13 Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him.

  • Gen 50:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

    14 And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

  • Heb 11:22
    74%

    22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

  • Gen 48:2
    74%

    2 And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.

  • Gen 45:28
    74%

    28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.

  • Gen 50:16
    73%

    16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

  • Gen 47:7
    73%

    7 Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.

  • Gen 44:31
    73%

    31 When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

  • Gen 49:33
    73%

    33 And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

  • Gen 44:29
    72%

    29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

  • Exod 13:19
    72%

    19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly keep you in mind; and you are to take my bones away with you.

  • Gen 48:15
    72%

    15 And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,