Genesis 50:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then 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.”

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  • Gen 26:3 : 3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
  • Gen 35:12 : 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
  • Gen 46:4 : 4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 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.
  • Exod 3:16-17 : 16 “Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them,‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, appeared to me– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob– saying,“I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt, 17 and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
  • Gen 28:13 : 13 and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River–
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 13:15 : 15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
  • Gen 13:17 : 17 Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”
  • Gen 15:7 : 7 The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
  • Gen 15:14-16 : 14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15 But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
  • Gen 21:1 : 1 The Birth of Isaac The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 and the people believed. When they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
  • Exod 33:1 : 1 The LORD said to Moses,“Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,‘I will give it to your descendants.’
  • Num 32:11 : 11 ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
  • Deut 1:8 : 8 Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”
  • Deut 6:10 : 10 Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets–
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,
  • Heb 11:22 : 22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.
  • Gen 50:5 : 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.’”
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 50:25-26
    2 verses
    89%

    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.

  • Gen 48:21
    86%

    21Then 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.

  • Gen 50:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    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,

  • Exod 13:19
    80%

    19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear,“God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.”

  • Gen 47:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    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 46:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3He said,“I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

    4I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”

  • Gen 46:30-31
    2 verses
    79%

    30Israel said to Joseph,“Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”

    31Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

  • Gen 50:13-17
    5 verses
    78%

    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:

    17‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

  • Heb 11:22
    76%

    22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

  • Gen 45:28
    76%

    28Then Israel said,“Enough! My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die.”

  • Exod 1:6
    75%

    6and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.

  • Gen 48:11
    75%

    11Israel said to Joseph,“I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”

  • Gen 45:17
    74%

    17Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

  • Gen 48:15
    74%

    15Then he blessed Joseph and said,“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked– the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

  • Gen 45:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Now go up to my father quickly and tell him,‘This is what your son Joseph says:“God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

    10You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me– you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

  • Gen 45:4
    74%

    4Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 50:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21So now, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children.” Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.

    22Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.

    23Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.

  • Gen 48:9
    73%

    9Joseph said to his father,“They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said,“Bring them to me so I may bless them.”

  • Gen 45:25
    73%

    25So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

  • Exod 3:16
    73%

    16“Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them,‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, appeared to me– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob– saying,“I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,