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Genesis 50:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Genesis 50:8

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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.

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

10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

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Genesis 47:1

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"Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”"

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Genesis 42:3

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"Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt."

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Exodus 1:6

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"Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation."

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Acts 7:14

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"Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls."

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Numbers 1:32

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"Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:"

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Deuteronomy 33:16

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"for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers."

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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 50:5

"‘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.’”"

Genesis 50:6

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

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