Genesis 50:6

Good News Translation

The king answered, “Go and bury your father, as you promised you would.”

Cross References

Genesis 48:21

Then Jacob said to Joseph, “As you see, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will take you back to the land of your ancestors.

Genesis 50:5

‘When my father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the tomb which he had prepared in the land of Canaan. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will come back.’”

Genesis 50:7

So Joseph went to bury his father. All the king's officials, the senior men of his court, and all the leading men of Egypt went with Joseph.