Genesis 50:5

Tree of Life Version

“My father made me take an oath saying, ‘Behold, I am about to die. In my tomb—which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan—there you must bury me.’ So now, please allow me to go up and bury my father, and then return.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

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

Genesis 48:21

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

Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I’m about to die. But God will surely take notice of you and will bring you up from this land to the land that He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Genesis 50:4

When the days of formal weeping passed, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s house saying, “If I’ve found favor in your eyes, please say in Pharaoh’s ears,

Genesis 50:6

Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father just as he made you swear on oath.”

2 Chronicles 16:14

He was buried in his own tomb, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him in his resting place, which was filled with sweet spices and various blended perfumes and they made a very large fire for him.

Job 30:23

For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

Psalm 79:3

They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when they also are afraid of heights and of dangers on the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry fails to excite— for a man is going to his eternal home, and mourners go about in the street—

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.

Isaiah 22:16

‘What are you doing here, and who are you to be here, that you cut out a grave for yourself, carving out a tomb on the height, chiseling a crypt for yourself in the rock?

Matthew 27:60

And he laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. Then he rolled a large stone up to the door of the tomb and went away.

Deuteronomy 4:22

For I must die in this land; I am not crossing over the Jordan. But you will cross over and take possession of that good land.

1 Samuel 14:43

Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you’ve done.” Jonathan told him saying, “I certainly did taste a little honey—with the end of the rod that was in my hand. Here I am—I must die!”