Genesis 47:29

Sensing death near, Israel makes Joseph swear by a solemn oath to bury him not in Egypt but in Canaan. He clings in faith to the promised land.

Cross-references · 19

• Gen 24:2Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
• Gen 24:49Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
• Deut 31:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
• 1 Kgs 2:1Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
• Gen 50:24–25Joseph 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.”
• Acts 7:15–16Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
• Ps 6:5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
• Job 30:23For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
• Heb 11:22By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.
• Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• 2 Sam 14:14For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
• Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
• Job 7:1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
• Ps 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
• Ps 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
• Gen 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
• 2 Sam 7:12When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
• Ps 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

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