Genesis 50:5
my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- made me
- Genesis 47:29–31
- Lo, I die
- Genesis 50:24; Genesis 48:21; Genesis 49:29, 30; Deuteronomy 4:22; 1 Samuel 14:43
- I have
- 2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 22:16; Matthew 27:60
- bury me
- Genesis 3:19; Job 30:23; Psalm 79:3; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Ecclesiastes 12:5, 7
- let me go
- Matthew 8:21, 22; Luke 9:59, 60