Genesis 50:5 meaning and explanation
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.”
Genesis 50:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Joseph speaks these words to Pharaoh's court, asking permission to leave Egypt and bury his father Jacob in Canaan. He recounts the oath Jacob had required of him, that his body not remain in Egypt but be laid in the tomb he had prepared.
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