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Genesis 50:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. "

Genesis 50:6

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4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

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Genesis 48:21

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"And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers."

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Genesis 47:30

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"But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said."

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Exodus 13:19

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"And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you."

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"And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age."

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Mark 7:10

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"For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:"

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1 Kings 13:31

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"And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:"

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Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY) and Bible Guided Semantic Search

From This Chapter

Genesis 50:1

"And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him."

Genesis 50:2

"And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."

Genesis 50:3

"And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days."

Genesis 50:4

"And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,"

Genesis 50:5

"My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again."

Genesis 50:7

"And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,"

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