And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,
When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.
Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
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