Genesis 50:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

Genesis 50:4

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

Genesis 50:6

And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

Job 30:23

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Psalm 79:3

Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

Isaiah 22:16

Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

Matthew 27:60

And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away.

Deuteronomy 4:22

But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage.

1 Samuel 14:43

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.