Genesis 50:5

New Living Translation

Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 48:21

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

Genesis 50:24

“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 50:4

When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.

Genesis 50:6

Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.

2 Chronicles 16:14

He was buried in the tomb he had carved out for himself in the City of David. He was laid on a bed perfumed with sweet spices and fragrant ointments, and the people built a huge funeral fire in his honor.

Job 30:23

And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.

Psalm 79:3

Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem; no one is left to bury the dead.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.

Isaiah 22:16

“Who do you think you are, and what are you doing here, building a beautiful tomb for yourself— a monument high up in the rock?

Matthew 27:60

He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.

Deuteronomy 4:22

You will cross the Jordan to occupy the land, but I will not. Instead, I will die here on the east side of the river.

1 Samuel 14:43

“Tell me what you have done,” Saul demanded of Jonathan. “I tasted a little honey,” Jonathan admitted. “It was only a little bit on the end of my stick. Does that deserve death?”