Genesis 50:5

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My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die, bury me in my graue, which I haue made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, & bury my father, & I wil come againe.

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  • 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they buryed him in one of his sepulchres, which he had made for him selfe in the citie of Dauid, and layed him in the bed, which they had filled with sweete odours and diuers kindes of spices made by the arte of the apoticarie: and they burnt odours for him with an exceeding great fire.
  • Isa 22:16 : 16 What haste thou to doe here? and whome hast thou here? that thou shouldest here hewe thee out a sepulchre, as he that heweth out his sepulchre in an hie place, or that graueth an habitation for him selfe in a rocke?
  • Matt 27:60 : 60 And put it in his new tombe, which he had hewen out in a rocke, and rolled a great stone to the doore of the sepulchre, and departed.
  • Gen 47:29-31 : 29 Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him, If I haue nowe founde grace in thy sight, put thine hand nowe vnder my thigh, and deale mercifully & truely with me: burie me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. 30 But when I shall sleepe with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury mee in their buryall; he answered, I will doe as thou hast sayde. 31 The he said, Sweare vnto me; he sware vnto him; Israel worshipped towardes the beds head.
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers.
  • Gen 49:29-30 : 29 And he charged them & sayd vnto them, I am ready to be gathered vnto my people: burie mee with my fathers in the caue, that is in the fielde of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the caue that is in the field of Machpelah besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which caue Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to burie in.
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 And Ioseph sayd vnto his brethren, I am ready to dye, and God will surely visite you, and bring you out of this land, vnto ye land which hee sware vnto Abraha, vnto Izhak, and vnto Iaakob.
  • Deut 4:22 : 22 For I must die in this land, and shall not go ouer Iorden: but ye shall goe ouer, and possesse that good land.
  • 1 Sam 14:43 : 43 Then Saul said to Ionathan, Tell me what thou hast done; Ionathan tolde him, & said, I tasted a litle hony with the ende of the rod, that was in mine hand, and loe, I must die.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
  • Ps 79:3 : 3 Their blood haue they shead like waters rounde about Ierusalem, and there was none to burie them.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.
  • Luke 9:59-60 : 59 But he said vnto another, Followe me; the same said, Lord, suffer me first to goe and burie my father. 60 And Iesus said vnto him, Let the dead burie their dead: but go thou, and preache the kingdome of God.
  • Matt 8:21-22 : 21 And another of his disciples saide vnto him, Master, suffer me first to goe, and burie my father. 22 But Iesus said vnto him, Followe me, and let the dead burie their dead.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 50:6-8
    3 verses
    91%

    6Then Pharaoh said, Goe vp and bury thy father, as he made thee to sweare.

    7So Ioseph went vp to bury his father, and with him went all the seruants of Pharaoh, both the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

    8Likewise all the house of Ioseph, and his brethren, and his fathers house: onely their children, and their sheepe, and their cattell left they in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 50:12-17
    6 verses
    84%

    12So his sonnes did vnto him, according as he had commanded them:

    13For his sonnes caried him into the lande of Canaan, & buried him in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah, which caue Abraham bought with the fielde, to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite besides Mamre.

    14Then Ioseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and al that went vp with him to bury his father, after that he had buried his father.

    15And when Iosephs brethren saw that their father was dead, they sayde, It may be that Ioseph will hate vs, and will pay vs againe all the euill, which we did vnto him.

    16Therefore they sent vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

    17Thus shal ye say vnto Ioseph, Forgiue now, I pray thee, the trespasse of thy brethren, and their sinne: for they rewarded thee euil; nowe, we pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of the seruants of thy fathers God; Ioseph wept, when they spake vnto him.

  • Gen 47:29-31
    3 verses
    84%

    29Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him, If I haue nowe founde grace in thy sight, put thine hand nowe vnder my thigh, and deale mercifully & truely with me: burie me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

    30But when I shall sleepe with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury mee in their buryall; he answered, I will doe as thou hast sayde.

    31The he said, Sweare vnto me; he sware vnto him; Israel worshipped towardes the beds head.

  • Gen 50:24-26
    3 verses
    82%

    24And Ioseph sayd vnto his brethren, I am ready to dye, and God will surely visite you, and bring you out of this land, vnto ye land which hee sware vnto Abraha, vnto Izhak, and vnto Iaakob.

    25And Ioseph tooke an oth of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visite you, and ye shall cary my bones hence.

    26So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him & put him in a chest in Egypt.

  • Gen 46:30-31
    2 verses
    81%

    30And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, and that thou art yet aliue.

    31Then Ioseph said to his brethren, & to his fathers house, I wil go vp and shew Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me,

  • Gen 45:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9Haste you & go vp to my father, & tel him, Thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come downe to me, tary not.

    10And thou shalt dwel in ye land of Goshen, and shalt be neere me, thou and thy children, and thy childrens children, and thy sheepe, and thy beastes, and all that thou hast.

  • Gen 50:4
    78%

    4And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I haue nowe found fauour in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, and say,

  • Gen 48:21
    78%

    21Then Israel said vnto Ioseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you againe vnto the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 49:29
    77%

    29And he charged them & sayd vnto them, I am ready to be gathered vnto my people: burie mee with my fathers in the caue, that is in the fielde of Ephron the Hittite,

  • Gen 50:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Then Ioseph fell vpon his fathers face and wept vpon him, and kissed him.

    2And Ioseph commaunded his seruantes the physicions, to enbaume his father, and the physicions enbaumed Israel.

  • Gen 44:34
    76%

    34For howe can I go vp to my father, if the childe be not with me, vnlesse I woulde see the euil that shall come on my father?

  • Gen 46:4
    76%

    4I wil go downe with thee into Egypt, and I will also bring thee vp againe, and Ioseph shal put his hand vpon thine eyes.

  • Exod 13:19
    76%

    19(And Moses tooke the bones of Ioseph with him: for he had made the children of Israel sweare, saying, God will surely visite you, and ye shal take my bones away hence with you)

  • Gen 47:5
    76%

    5Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,

    18And take your father, and your houshoulds, and come to me, and I wil giue you the best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eate of the fat of the land.

  • Gen 45:13
    76%

    13Therefore tel my father of al mine honour in Egypt, and of all that ye haue seene, and make haste, and bring my father hither.

  • Gen 45:25
    75%

    25Then they went vp from Egypt, and came vnto the land of Canaan vnto Iaakob their father,

  • Gen 44:32
    75%

    32Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer.

  • Gen 44:22
    74%

    22And we answered my lord, The childe can not depart from his father: for if he leaue his father, his father would die.

  • Gen 42:38
    74%

    38But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.

  • Gen 37:35
    74%

    35Then all his sonnes and all his daughters rose vp to comfort him, but he woulde not be comforted, but said, Surely I will go downe into the graue vnto my sonne mourning: so his father wept for him.

  • Gen 45:28
    74%

    28And Israel sayde, I haue inough: Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue: I wil go and see him yer I die.