And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Parallel translations
- WEB His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
- BSB So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them.
- NKJV So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.
- NASB And so his sons did for him as he had commanded them;
- NLT So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them.
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Jacob's sons carry out exactly what he commanded them.
Overview
The brothers' faithful obedience honors their father's dying wishes precisely. Their unity in the task shows the family bound together around the patriarch's word. Honoring father and mother, even after death, is a mark of godly character (Exodus 20:12).
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- Acts 7:16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
- Gen 49:29–32And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Eph 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- Gen 47:29–31And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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