◄ Genesis 50:6 ►
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Good News Translation
The king answered, "Go and bury your father, as you promised you would."

New Revised Standard Version
Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

Contemporary English Version
The king answered, "Go to Canaan and keep your promise to your father."

New American Bible
Pharaoh replied, “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise on oath.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.

as he made.

Genesis 48:21 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.

Context
Mourning and Burial for Jacob
…5For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return. 6And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear.7So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.…
Cross References
Genesis 50:5
For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.

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

Genesis 50:5
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