Genesis 48:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף הִנֵּ֥ה אָנֹכִ֖י מֵ֑ת וְהָיָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ עִמָּכֶ֔ם וְהֵשִׁ֣יב אֶתְכֶ֔ם אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer yiśrāʾēl to-yôsēp̄ hinnēh ʾānōkî mēt and wĕhāyāh ʾĕlōhîm with ʿimmākem and wĕhēšîb ʾetkem to-ʾereṣ ʾăbōtêkem

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun, masculine singular - Israel
• *yôsēp̄*: proper noun, masculine singular - Joseph
• *hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold
• *ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *mēt*: Qal participle, masculine singular - dying
• *wĕhāyāh*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and will be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - God
• *ʿimmākem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - with you
• *wĕhēšîb*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and will bring back
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
• *ʾăbōtêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers

Word Meanings

• *hinnēh*: behold/look/here
• *ʾānōkî mēt*: I am dying/about to die/will die
• *wĕhāyāh*: and will be/shall be/and may be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/divine being (grammatically plural form used for singular deity)
• *wĕhēšîb*: and will bring back/return/restore
• *ʾereṣ ʾăbōtêkem*: land of your fathers/ancestors/forefathers

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.'

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And Israel{H3478} said{H559} unto Joseph,{H3130} Behold, I die:{H4191} but God{H430} will be with you, and bring you again{H7725} unto the land{H776} of your fathers.{H1}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And Israel{H3478} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto Joseph{H3130}, Behold, I die{H4191}{(H8801)}: but God{H430} shall be with you, and bring you again{H7725}{(H8689)} unto the land{H776} of your fathers{H1}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: beholde I dye. And god shalbe with you and bringe you agayne vnto the land of youre fathers.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And Israel saide vnto Ioseph: Beholde, I dye, & God shall be wt you, & brynge you agayne in to ye lande of youre fathers.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And Israel said vnto Ioseph: behold I dye, & God shalbe with you, & bryng you againe vnto ye land of your fathers.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Israel saith unto Joseph, `Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:4 : 4 I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon your eyes.
• Gen 50:24 : 24 And Joseph said unto his brothers, I die, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• Gen 26:3 : 3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;
• Gen 28:15 : 15 And behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done what I have spoken to you of.
• Gen 37:1 : 1 And Jacob lived in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
• Gen 12:5 : 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to the land of Canaan.
• Gen 15:14 : 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
• Deut 1:1-9 : 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite the Red Sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the south, and by the sea, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them. 9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are today as the stars of heaven in multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you, as He has promised you!) 12 How can I alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your complaints? 13 Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men among your tribes, and I will make them leaders over you. 14 And you answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and known men, and made them leaders over you, captains over thousands, captains over hundreds, captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. 16 And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him. 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea. 20 And I said to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving to us. 21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has told you; do not fear, neither be discouraged. 22 And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to. 23 And the plan pleased me well: so I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe: 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and explored it. 25 And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us back word, saying, It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us. 26 Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God: 27 And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 29 Then I said to you, Do not be terrified, nor be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. 32 Yet, in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, in fire by night to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 35 Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 36 Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I will give the land he has trodden upon, because he has fully followed the LORD. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me because of you, saying, You also shall not go in there. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. 41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill. 42 And the LORD said to me, Tell them, Do not go up or fight, because I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies. 43 So I spoke to you; and you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the hill. 44 And the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, as far as Hormah. 45 Then you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you. 46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you stayed there.
• Deut 31:8 : 8 And the LORD, he it is that goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.
• Josh 1:5 : 5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you.
• Josh 1:9 : 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
• Josh 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said to Joshua, This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
• Josh 23:14 : 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass for you, and not one thing has failed thereof.
• Josh 24:1-9 : 1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their leaders, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers lived on the other side of the river in ancient times, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac. 4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted Egypt according to what I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. 6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7 And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness for a long time. 8 And I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: 10 But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. 11 And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow. 13 And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat from vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant. 14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve the LORD. 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after he has done you good. 21 And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD. 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away, said he, the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel. 24 And the people said to Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a large stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us: it shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God. 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his own inheritance. 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD, which he had done for Israel. 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that belonged to Phinehas his son, which was given him in Mount Ephraim.
• 1 Kgs 2:2-4 : 2 I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; 3 And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself: 4 That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
• Ps 18:46 : 46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
• Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
• Zech 1:5-6 : 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
• Luke 2:29 : 29 Lord, now you let your servant depart in peace, according to your word,
• Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
• 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
• Heb 7:3 : 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually.
• Heb 7:8 : 8 And here mortal men receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
• Heb 7:23-25 : 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death: 24 But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
• 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.