Genesis 48:21
Good News Translation
Then Jacob said to Joseph, "As you see, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will take you back to the land of your ancestors.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
After that, Jacob said, "Joseph, you can see that I won't live much longer. But God will be with you and will lead you back to the land he promised our family long ago.

New American Bible
Then Israel said to Joseph: “I am about to die. But God will be with you and will restore you to the land of your ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.

Behold.

Genesis 50:24 After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

1 Kings 2:2-4 I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself a man. . . .

Psalm 146:3,4 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Zechariah 1:5,6 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always? . . .

Luke 2:29 Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word in peace:

Acts 13:36 For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

2 Timothy 4:6 For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.

Hebrews 7:3,8,23-25 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever. . . .

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

God.

Genesis 15:14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

Genesis 28:15 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Genesis 46:4 I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 1:1-46 These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, between Pharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much gold. . . .

Deuteronomy 31:8 And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

Joshua 1:5,9 No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee. . . .

Joshua 3:7 And the Lord said to Joshua: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.

Joshua 23:14 Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth, and you shall know with all your mind that of all the words which the Lord promised to perform for you, not one hath failed,

Joshua 24:1-33 And Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord: . . .

Psalm 18:46 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

land.

Genesis 12:5 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

Genesis 26:3 And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

Genesis 37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.

Context
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
20And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses. 21And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.22I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.…
Cross References
Genesis 26:3
And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

Genesis 28:15
And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Genesis 46:4
I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.

Genesis 50:24
After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 30:3
The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

Genesis 48:20
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