Genesis 47:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gen 49:29-32 : 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, 30 In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. 31 There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest. 32 In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.
  • Gen 23:19 : 19 Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 25:9 : 9 And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;
  • Gen 50:5-9 : 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, 8 And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen. 9 And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. 10 And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days. 11 And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. 12 So his sons did as he had given them orders to do: 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.
  • Gen 50:25 : 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.
  • 2 Sam 19:37 : 37 Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.
  • 1 Kgs 13:22 : 22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.
  • Neh 2:3 : 3 And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?
  • Neh 2:5 : 5 And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:29
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    29 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;

  • Gen 50:1-7
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    84%

    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 47:31
    83%

    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 49:29
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    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 48:21
    80%

    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 50:24-26
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    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 46:4
    79%

    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 50:12-14
    3 verses
    79%

    12 So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

    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.

  • Gen 46:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

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

    31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;

  • Gen 15:15
    76%

    15 As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

  • Exod 13:19
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    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 49:33
    74%

    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 50:16
    74%

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

  • Heb 11:22
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 13:31
    73%

    31 And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.

  • 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.

  • Acts 7:15
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    15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

  • Gen 47:7
    73%

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

  • Gen 45:28
    73%

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

  • Gen 35:29
    72%

    29 Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

  • Gen 45:10
    72%

    10 The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:

  • Gen 48:2
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    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 50:22
    72%

    22 Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.