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Genesis 50:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" ‘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.’” "

Genesis 50:5

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

4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, 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,

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Genesis 50:1

"Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him."

Genesis 50:2

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

Genesis 50:3

"Forty days were used for him, for that is how many days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days."

Genesis 50:4

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

Genesis 50:6

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

Genesis 50:7

"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,"

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