Genesis 47:29

English Standard Version 2016

And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:14

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

Genesis 24:49

Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”

Genesis 24:2

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,

1 Kings 2:1

When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

Hebrews 11:22

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Psalm 49:9

that he should live on forever and never see the pit.

Psalm 49:7

Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

Job 30:23

For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.

Job 7:1

“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

2 Samuel 7:12

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 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 sojourning.”

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 27:2

He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

Genesis 50:5

‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”

1 Samuel 26:10

And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

2 Samuel 2:32

And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 50:12

Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Joshua 2:14

And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”

Joshua 23:14

“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.