29 When [a](A)the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, (B)place your hand under my thigh now and (C)deal with me in kindness and [b]faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt, 30 but when I (D)[c]lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in (E)their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:29 Lit the days of Israel
  2. Genesis 47:29 Lit truth
  3. Genesis 47:30 I.e., die

32 And Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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