Genesis 50:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.

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  • Gen 50:1-5
    5 verses
    91%

    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.'"

  • Gen 50:7-9
    3 verses
    87%

    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.

    9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

  • Gen 50:12-14
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Gen 47:29-31
    3 verses
    82%

    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
    79%

    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 50:16
    78%

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

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    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 46:31
    77%

    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 45:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

    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.

  • Gen 47:5
    77%

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

  • Exod 13:19
    75%

    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 46:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

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

  • Gen 47:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

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

    8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

  • Gen 48:21
    73%

    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 41:55
    72%

    55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

  • Gen 45:25
    72%

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

  • Gen 44:17
    71%

    17 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

  • Exod 6:11
    71%

    11 "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land."

  • Gen 49:29
    71%

    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 45:13
    71%

    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."