Genesis 47:29
Hebrew Text— Genesis 47:29The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
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For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”
About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.” ’ ”
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?
You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.
The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;
I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Israel said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.
Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”
When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.