Genesis 47:30
in Genesis 47but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
KJV
But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
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This verse in Genesis 47
Commentary
6 notes on this verseI will lie with my fathers - As God had promised the land of Canaan to Abraham and his posterity, Jacob considered it as a consecrated place, under the particular superintendence and blessing of God: and as Sarah, Abraham, and Isaac were interred near to Hebron, he in all probability wished to lie, not only in the same place, but in the same grave; and it is not likely that he would have been solicitous about this, had he not considered that promised land as being a type of the rest that remains for the people of God, and a pledge of the inheritance among the saints in light.
This site's exposition
the time drew near for Israel to die
on Genesis 47:29-30
Jacob asks for the oath in the form Abraham used at Genesis 24:2, a hand under the thigh. Abraham used it to send for a wife from his own kindred, and Jacob uses it over his grave. His burial is to be in Canaan with his fathers. John Wesley read the request as faith, a hold kept on the land of promise until his descendants should own it.
This site's exposition
when I lie down with my fathers
Lying down with the fathers means death and burial among a man's own people. Joseph gives his word at once, and Jacob still asks for the oath in the next verse. The promise is kept at 50:13, in the cave of Machpelah.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
But I will lie with my fathers,....
Nothing will better help to make a death-bed easy than the certain prospect of a rest in Canaan after death. (3.) When this was done Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head, yielding himself, as it were, to the stroke of death ("Now let it come, and it shall be welcome"), or worshipping God, as it is explained, Heb. xi.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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 Nu 10:29).
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשָֽׁכַבְתִּי֙ | veshakhavti | and I will lie down | H7901 → | 212 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| אֲבֹתַ֔י | ʾavotai | ancestors my | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וּנְשָׂאתַ֙נִי֙ | unesatani | and you will carry me | H5375 → | 656 times |
| מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם | mimitzrayim | from Egypt | H4714 → | 641 times |
| וּקְבַרְתַּ֖נִי | ukevartani | and you will bury me | H6912 → | 133 times |
| בִּקְבֻרָתָ֑ם | bikvuratam | in grave their | H6900 → | 14 times |
| וַיֹּאמַ֕ר | vaiyomar | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אָנֹכִ֖י | ʾanokhi | I | H595 → | 359 times |
| אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה | ʾeeseh | I will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃ | khidvarekha | according to word your | H1697 → | 1440 times |
וְשָֽׁכַבְתִּי֙and I will lie down
veshakhavtiH7901 →212 times
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
אֲבֹתַ֔יancestors my
ʾavotaiH1 →1212 times
וּנְשָׂאתַ֙נִי֙and you will carry me
unesataniH5375 →656 times
מִמִּצְרַ֔יִםfrom Egypt
mimitzrayimH4714 →641 times
וּקְבַרְתַּ֖נִיand you will bury me
ukevartaniH6912 →133 times
בִּקְבֻרָתָ֑םin grave their
bikvuratamH6900 →14 times
וַיֹּאמַ֕רand he said
vaiyomarH559 →5305 times
אָנֹכִ֖יI
ʾanokhiH595 →359 times
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥הI will do
ʾeesehH6213 →2628 times
כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃according to word your
khidvarekhaH1697 →1440 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 25:9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
it leads to
- Genesis 50:13
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 35:29
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 21:9–10
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
- Genesis 49:29–30
Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
- Genesis 50:13
Through
2 Samuel 19:37Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 2:7
But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.
- Jeremiah 41:17
And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt
- 2 Samuel 19:40
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
- 1 Kings 2:7
Through
Nehemiah 2:5and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are…
it leads to
- Ruth 2:13
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
- Ruth 2:13
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.