29 When the time (A)drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Now if I have found favor in your sight, please (B)put your hand under my thigh, and (C)deal kindly and truly with me. (D)Please do not bury me in Egypt,

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30 but (A)let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and (B)bury me in their burial place.”

And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

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19 And Moses took the (A)bones of (B)Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, (C)“God will surely [a]visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:19 give attention to

32 (A)The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground (B)which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred [a]pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:32 Heb. qesitah, an unknown ancient measure of weight

15 (A)So Jacob went down to Egypt; (B)and he died, he and our fathers.

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16 And (A)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in (B)the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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22 By faith (A)Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

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