Genesis 50:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So Pharaoh said,“Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.

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  • Gen 50:1-5
    5 verses
    91%

    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.

    4When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court,“If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,

    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 50:7-9
    3 verses
    87%

    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.

  • Gen 50:12-14
    3 verses
    83%

    12So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.

    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.

  • Gen 47:29-31
    3 verses
    82%

    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.”

    31Jacob 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 50:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Gen 50:16
    78%

    16So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

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

    18Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

  • Gen 46:31
    77%

    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 45:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

    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!

  • Gen 47:5
    77%

    5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.

  • Exod 13:19
    75%

    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 46:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    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 47:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

    8Pharaoh said to Jacob,“How long have you lived?”

  • Gen 48:21
    73%

    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 41:55
    72%

    55When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,“Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

  • Gen 45:25
    72%

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

  • Gen 44:17
    71%

    17But Joseph said,“Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”

  • Exod 6:11
    71%

    11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

  • Gen 49:29
    71%

    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 45:13
    71%

    13So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!”