Genesis 47:29

New International Version

When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:14

The Lord said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.

Genesis 24:49

Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”

Genesis 24:2

He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh.

1 Kings 2:1

When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son.

Hebrews 11:22

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Psalm 89:48

Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?

Psalm 49:9

so that they should live on forever and not see decay.

Psalm 49:7

No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them—

Psalm 6:5

Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Job 14:14

If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

Job 7:1

“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

2 Samuel 14:14

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

2 Samuel 7:12

When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 27:2

Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.

Genesis 50:5

‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”

1 Samuel 26:10

As surely as the Lord lives,” he said, “the Lord himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

2 Samuel 2:32

They took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak.

Genesis 48:21

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

Genesis 50:12

So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

Joshua 2:14

“Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.”

Joshua 23:14

“Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.