Genesis 50:25

The Message

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel promise under oath, “When God makes his visitation, make sure you take my bones with you as you leave here.”

Cross References

Exodus 13:18

So God led the people on the wilderness road, looping around to the Red Sea. The Israelites left Egypt in military formation.

Exodus 13:19

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear to do it, saying, “God will surely hold you accountable, so make sure you bring my bones from here with you.”

Hebrews 11:22

By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.

Joshua 24:32

Joseph’s bones, which the People of Israel had brought from Egypt, they buried in Shechem in the plot of ground that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor (who was the father of Shechem). He paid a hundred silver coins for it. It belongs to the inheritance of the family of Joseph.

Ruth 1:6

One day she got herself together, she and her two daughters-in-law, to leave the country of Moab and set out for home; she had heard that God had been pleased to visit his people and give them food. And so she started out from the place she had been living, she and her two daughters-in-law with her, on the road back to the land of Judah.