Verse 29

The 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,

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:2 : 2 Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had,“Put your hand under my thigh
  • Gen 24:49 : 49 Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”
  • Deut 31:14 : 14 The Commissioning of Joshua Then the LORD said to Moses,“The day of your death is near. Summon Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting so that I can commission him.” So Moses and Joshua presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
  • 1 Kgs 2:1 : 1 David’s Final Words to Solomon When David was close to death, he told Solomon his son:
  • Gen 50:24-25 : 24 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.” 25 Joseph 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.”
  • 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.”
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
  • 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)
  • Acts 7:15-16 : 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors, 16 and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
  • 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.