Genesis 47:29

Modern English Version

When the time drew near when Israel would die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found grace in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

Cross References

Genesis 24:2

So Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who was in charge over all that he had, “Please, place your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:49

And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”

Genesis 27:2

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

Genesis 3:19

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

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Genesis 48:21

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

Genesis 50:12

So his sons did with him just as he had commanded them.

Genesis 50:5

‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father, and then I will return.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:14

We will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; He devises plans so that His banished ones will not be cast out from Him.

2 Samuel 2:32

They carried Asahel back and interred him in his father’s tomb, which was at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men traveled throughout the night and reached Hebron at dawn.

2 Samuel 7:12

When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up after you an offspring from your body, and I will establish his rule.

1 Kings 2:1

Now it was coming close to the day of David’s death, and he gave his son Solomon a charge, saying:

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my service I will wait, until my relief comes.

Job 30:23

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

Job 7:1

“Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

Psalm 49:7

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,

Psalm 49:9

that he should live on eternally, and never see the pit.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of You; in Sheol who will give You thanks?

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and not see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?    Selah

Deuteronomy 31:14

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

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and begin to prostitute themselves after the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they are going to be among them, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Hebrews 11:22

By faith Joseph, when he was dying, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,

Joshua 2:14

The men said to her, “Our lives for yours; if you do not report us, then when the Lord gives us the land, we will act faithfully and kindly with you.”

Joshua 23:14

“Now, I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and souls that not a single word has failed out of all the good things that the Lord your God has said concerning you. All came true for you. Not a single word among them failed.

1 Samuel 26:10

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.