Genesis 47:29

World English Bible (2000)

The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,

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  • Gen 24:2 : 2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
  • Gen 24:49 : 49 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
  • Deut 31:14 : 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him." Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
  • 1 Kgs 2:1 : 1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
  • Gen 50:24-25 : 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
  • 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
  • Acts 7:15-16 : 15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers, 16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
  • Heb 11:22 : 22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:30-31
    2 verses
    86%

    30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

    31 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.

  • Gen 50:1-7
    7 verses
    79%

    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

    2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

    3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

    4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

    5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

    6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

    7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  • Gen 48:21
    79%

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

  • Gen 46:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

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

  • Gen 49:29
    77%

    29 He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

  • Gen 50:24-26
    3 verses
    76%

    24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

    25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

    26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

  • Gen 47:28
    75%

    28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

  • Gen 46:4
    75%

    4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

  • Gen 48:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

    11 Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also."

    12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

    13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.

  • Gen 50:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

    14 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  • Heb 11:22
    74%

    22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

  • Gen 48:2
    74%

    2 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

  • Gen 45:28
    74%

    28 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

  • Gen 50:16
    73%

    16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

  • Gen 47:7
    73%

    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Gen 44:31
    73%

    31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

  • Gen 49:33
    73%

    33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

  • Gen 44:29
    72%

    29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

  • Exod 13:19
    72%

    19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."

  • Gen 48:15
    72%

    15 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,