⁴ I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again.^(A) And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.^(B)”

⁸ So I have come down^(A) to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land,^(B) a land flowing with milk and honey^(C)—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites^(D) and Jebusites.^(E)

50 Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.^(A)

²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you^[a](A) and take you^[b] back to the land of your^[c] fathers.^(B)

¹⁵ I am with you^(A) and will watch over you^(B) wherever you go,^(C) and I will bring you back to this land.^(D) I will not leave you^(E) until I have done what I have promised you.^(F)”^(G)

Israel’s Only Savior

⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath^(A) and said, “I am about to die;^(B) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^(C) in the land of Canaan.”^(D) Now let me go up and bury my father;^(E) then I will return.’”

²⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die.^(A) But God will surely come to your aid^(B) and take you up out of this land to the land^(C) he promised on oath to Abraham,^(D) Isaac^(E) and Jacob.”^{(F) 25} And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath^(G) and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones^(H) up from this place.”^(I)

¹³ They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,^(A) near Mamre,^(B) which Abraham had bought along with the field^(C) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.^(D)