Genesis 50:5

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 {H1} made me swear {H7650}, saying {H559}, Lo {H2009}, I die {H4191}: in my grave {H6913} which I have digged {H3738} for me in the land {H776} of Canaan {H3667}, there shalt thou bury me {H6912}. Now therefore let me go up {H5927}, I pray thee, and bury {H6912} my father {H1}, and I will come again {H7725}.

'My father had me swear an oath. He said, "I am going to die. You are to bury me in my grave, which I dug for myself in the land of Kena'an."Therefore, I beg you, let me go up and bury my father; I will return.'"

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.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 22:16 (5 votes)

    What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

  • 2 Chronicles 16:14 (5 votes)

    And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

  • Matthew 27:60 (4 votes)

    And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

  • Genesis 47:29 (3 votes)

    And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

  • Genesis 47:31 (3 votes)

    And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

  • Genesis 48:21 (2 votes)

    And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

  • Psalms 79:3 (2 votes)

    Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them].