Genesis 50:5
Hebrew Text— Genesis 50:5‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”
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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.
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”
You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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.”
Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
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.”
Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”
They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
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.
‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
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.”
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
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?
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
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.
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.
“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
The slain of Yahweh will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground.
You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They will lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says Yahweh.”
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.
Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
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.”
The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.
Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
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:
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.