Verse 5
Genesis 50:5
Noah Webster Bible
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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, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
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 fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
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And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed I...
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And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed:) an...
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And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I...
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My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Ca...
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And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
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And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of...
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And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and t...
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And there went with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
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And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a...
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And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they sa...
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And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:
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For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpel...
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And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father,...
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And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate us, a...
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And they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying,
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So shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; fo...
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And his brethren also went and fell down before his face: and they said, Behold, we are thy servants...
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And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God (Elohim)?
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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God (Elohim) meant it for good, to bring to pass, as...
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Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spok...
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And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
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And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of M...
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And Joseph said to his brethren, I die: and God (Elohim) will surely visit you, and bring you out of...
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And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God (Elohim) will surely visit you, and y...
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So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin...
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