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Genesis 50:6

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Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

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Genesis 50:6 in other translations

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

Genesis 50:6 · American Standard Version

Genesis 50:6 in context

  1. 4When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s staff, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
  2. 5‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”
  3. 6Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
  4. 7Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
  5. 8All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.