Genesis 50:5

Modern English Version

‘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.’ ”

Cross References

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 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 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. God will surely come to you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 50:4

When the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh, saying,

Genesis 50:6

Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they buried him in the tomb that he cut for himself in the City of David. And they laid him on a bier that had been filled with all types of spices mixed with ointments, and they made a very great fire in his honor.

Job 30:23

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

Psalm 79:3

Their blood have they poured out like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when they fear heights, even the terrors along the road; the almond tree blossoms white, and the grasshopper is burdened down, and the aphrodisiac caper-berry plant fails, because a person is going to his eternal home, and the mourners are throughout the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man is a father to a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are numerous, but his life is not satisfied with the many good things, and there is not one of his children to eventually bury him, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he —

Isaiah 22:16

What right do you have here? And whom do you have here that you have dug out for yourself a tomb here, as he who hews out for himself a tomb on high, and who cuts a habitation for himself in a rock?

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. And he rolled a large stone to the door of the tomb and departed.

Deuteronomy 4:22

So I must die in this land. I shall not cross over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.

1 Samuel 14:43

Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, and said, “I indeed tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am. I must die.”