Verse 5
Genesis 50:5
Literal Standard Version
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My father caused me to swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there you bury me; and now, please let me go up and bury my father, then I return”;
Original Language Text
hebrew
אָבִ֞/י הִשְׁבִּיעַ֣/נִי לֵ/אמֹ֗ר הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִי֮ מֵת֒ בְּ/קִבְרִ֗/י אֲשֶׁ֨ר כָּרִ֤יתִי לִ/י֙ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן שָׁ֖מָּ/ה תִּקְבְּרֵ֑/נִי וְ/עַתָּ֗ה אֶֽעֱלֶה נָּ֛א וְ/אֶקְבְּרָ֥ה אֶת אָבִ֖/י וְ/אָשֽׁוּבָה
English Translation
My father has made me swear, saying, "Here I am about to die in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan; there you shall bury me." Now, please let me go up and bury my father, then I will return.
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Chapter 50 Context
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And Joseph falls on his father’s face, and weeps over him, and kisses him;
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and Joseph commands his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Is...
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and they fulfill for him forty days, for so they fulfill the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians...
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And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaks to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “Now if I...
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My father caused me to swear, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared...
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and Pharaoh says, “Go up and bury your father, as he caused you to swear.”
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And Joseph goes up to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh go up with him, the elderly o...
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and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and the house of his father; only their infants, and...
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and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great.
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And they come to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a l...
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and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, sees the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad and...
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And his sons do to him so as he commanded them,
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and his sons carry him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpela...
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And Joseph turns back to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who are going up with him to bury his f...
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And the brothers of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, “Perhaps Joseph hates us, and cer...
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And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before his death, saying,
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Thus you say to Joseph: Ah, now, please bear with the transgression of your brothers and their sin,...
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And his brothers also go and fall before him, and say, “Behold, we are to you for servants.”
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And Joseph says to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God (Elohim)?
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As for you, you devised evil against me, but God (Elohim) devised it for good, in order to do as at...
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and now, do not fear: I nourish you and your infants”; and he comforts them, and speaks to their hea...
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And Joseph dwells in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph lives one hundred and ten yea...
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and Joseph looks on Ephraim’s sons of a third generation; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have...
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And Joseph says to his brothers, “I am dying, and God (Elohim) certainly inspects you, and has cause...
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And Joseph causes the sons of Israel to swear, saying, “God (Elohim) certainly inspects you, and you...
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And Joseph dies, a son of one hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffi...
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