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Summary
Genesis 50:4–9

50:4. The time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the family of Pharaoh: If I have found favor in your sight, speak in the ears of Pharaoh:

'''50:5. For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; you shall bury me in my sepulchre which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.'''

50:6. Pharaoh said to him: Go up and bury your father according to your oath to him.

50:7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharaoh's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

50:8. The house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

50:9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

Jacob's Body Is Taken to Canaan, watercolor by James Tissot Date: c. 1896-1902 Source: www.jesuswalk.com/jacob/images/tissot-jacobs-body-is-taken-to-canaan-445x291.jpg Author: James Joseph Jacques Tissot (1836–1902) This edited image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years