Then Josephmade the sonsof Israelswear,saying,"Godwill surelytakecareof you, and you shall carrymy bonesup from here."
My fathermade me swear,saying,"Behold,I am about to die;in my gravewhichI dugfor myself in the landof Canaan,thereyou shall buryme." Nowtherefore, pleaselet me goup and burymy father;then I will return.'"
Hence Godledthe peoplearoundby the wayof the wildernessto the RedSea;and the sonsof Israelwentup in martialarrayfrom the landof Egypt.
Mosestookthe bonesof Josephwith him, for he had made the sonsof Israelsolemnlyswear,saying,"Godwill surelytakecareof you, and you shall carrymy bonesfrom herewith you."
"So I said,I will bringyou up out of the afflictionof Egyptto the landof the Canaaniteand the Hittiteand the Amoriteand the Perizziteand the Hiviteand the Jebusite,to a landflowingwith milkand honey."'
"So I have comedownto deliverthem from the powerof the Egyptians,and to bringthem up from that landto a goodand spaciousland,to a landflowingwith milkand honey,to the placeof the Canaaniteand the Hittiteand the Amoriteand the Perizziteand the Hiviteand the Jebusite.
"[From there] they were removedto Shechemand laidin the tombwhichAbrahamhad purchasedfor a sumof moneyfrom the sonsof Hamorin Shechem.
By faithJoseph,when he was dying,made mentionof the exodusof the sonsof Israel,and gave ordersconcerninghis bones.
Now they buriedthe bonesof Joseph,whichthe sonsof Israelbroughtup from Egypt,at Shechem,in the pieceof groundwhichJacobhad boughtfrom the sonsof Hamorthe fatherof Shechemfor one hundredpiecesof money;and they becamethe inheritanceof Joseph'ssons.
Then she arosewith her daughters-in-lawthat she might returnfrom the landof Moab,for she had heardin the landof Moabthat the LORDhad visitedHis peoplein givingthem food.
