Genesis 50:5

World English Bible (2000)

'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.'"

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  • 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
  • Isa 22:16 : 16 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
  • Matt 27:60 : 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
  • Gen 47:29-31 : 29 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, 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 48:21 : 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 49:29-30 : 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, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
  • Gen 50:24 : 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."
  • Deut 4:22 : 22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
  • 1 Sam 14:43 : 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die."
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 79:3 : 3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Luke 9:59-60 : 59 He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 60 But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
  • Matt 8:21-22 : 21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
  • 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 50:6-8
    3 verses
    91%

    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,

    8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 50:12-17
    6 verses
    84%

    12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

    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.

    15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

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

    17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

  • Gen 47:29-31
    3 verses
    84%

    29 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,

    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 50:24-26
    3 verses
    82%

    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 46:30-31
    2 verses
    81%

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

    31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Gen 45:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

    10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

  • Gen 50:4
    78%

    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,

  • Gen 48:21
    78%

    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 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 50:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Gen 44:34
    76%

    34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Gen 46:4
    76%

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

  • Exod 13:19
    76%

    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 47:5
    76%

    5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

    18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

  • Gen 45:13
    76%

    13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."

  • Gen 45:25
    75%

    25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

  • Gen 44:32
    75%

    32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

  • Gen 44:22
    74%

    22 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

  • Gen 42:38
    74%

    38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

  • Gen 37:35
    74%

    35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

  • 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."