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Genesis 47:29
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Joseph’s Vow to Jacob

27 So Israel adwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and bgrew and multiplied exceedingly.  
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.
29 When the time adrew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Now if I have found favor in your sight, please bput your hand under my thigh, and cdeal kindly and truly with me. dPlease do not bury me in Egypt,  
30 but alet me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bbury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”  
31 Then he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him. So aIsrael bowed himself on the head of the bed. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Genesis 47:29-31

the time drew nigh that Israel must die—One only of his dying arrangements is recorded; but that one reveals his whole character. It was the disposal of his remains, which were to be carried to Canaan, not from a mere romantic attachment to his native soil, nor, like his modern descendants, from a superstitious feeling for the soil of the Holy Land, but from faith in the promises. His address to Joseph—"if now I have found grace in thy sight," that is, as the vizier of Egypt—his exacting a solemn oath that his wishes would be fulfilled and the peculiar form of that oath, all pointed significantly to the promise and showed the intensity of his desire to enjoy its blessings (compare Numbers 10:29).


 
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