Genesis 50:12
So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.
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- Gen 47:29-31 : 29 The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him,“If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt, 30 but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.” 31 Jacob said,“Swear to me that you will do so.” So Joseph gave him his word. Then Israel bowed down at the head of his bed.
- Gen 49:29-32 : 29 Then he instructed them,“I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite. 30 It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite. 31 There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah. 32 The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”
- Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
- Acts 7:16 : 16 and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
- Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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- Gen 50:13-164 verses81%
13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
14After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,“What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”
16So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:
- Gen 50:5-117 verses75%
5‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
6So Pharaoh said,“Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”
7So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
8all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
9Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.
10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.
11When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said,“This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
- Gen 47:29-302 verses75%
29The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him,“If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
30but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.”
- Gen 50:1-33 verses75%
1The Burials of Jacob and Joseph Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.
2Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
3They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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35All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled.“No,” he said,“I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.
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33When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.
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22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.
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9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite.
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50So all the Israelites did exactly as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.
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31After he buried him, he said to his sons,“When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
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7He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.
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8Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!
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29Then he instructed them,“I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
- Gen 50:24-263 verses71%
24Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
25Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said,“God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
26So Joseph died at the age of 110. After they embalmed him, his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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28and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
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12So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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12Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.
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31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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16This is what Moses did, according to all the LORD had commanded him– so he did.
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6and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.