Genesis 50:5

New American Bible - revised edition

My father made me swear: ‘I am dying. Bury me in my grave that I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.’ So now let me go up to bury my father. Then I will come back.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph: “I am about to die. But God will be with you and will restore you to the land of your ancestors.

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers: “I am about to die. God will surely take care of you and lead you up from this land to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Genesis 50:4

When the period of mourning was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s household. “If you please, appeal to Pharaoh, saying:

Genesis 50:6

Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise on oath.”

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb he had hewn for himself in the City of David, after laying him on a couch that was filled with spices and various kinds of aromatics compounded into an ointment; and they kindled a huge fire for him.

Job 30:23

Indeed I know that you will return me to death to the house destined for everyone alive.

Psalm 79:3

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and no one is left to do the burying.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

When one is afraid of heights, and perils in the street; When the almond tree blooms, and the locust grows sluggish and the caper berry is without effect, Because mortals go to their lasting home, and mourners go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Isaiah 22:16

“What have you here? Whom have you here, that you have hewn for yourself a tomb here, Hewing a tomb on high, carving a resting place in the rock?”

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed.

Deuteronomy 4:22

I myself shall die in this country; I shall not cross the Jordan; but you are going to cross over and take possession of that good land.

1 Samuel 14:43

Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan replied, “I only tasted a little honey from the end of the staff I was holding. Am I to die for this?”