24 Joseph said to his brothers, “(A)I am about to die, but God will assuredly [a]take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He [b]promised on oath to (B)Abraham, to (C)Isaac, and to (D)Jacob.” 25 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will assuredly [c]take care of you, and (E)you shall carry my bones up from here.”

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  1. Genesis 50:24 Or visit
  2. Genesis 50:24 Lit swore
  3. Genesis 50:25 Or visit

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)

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32 Now (A)they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the plot of land (B)which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred [a]pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Heb qesitah

32 And Joseph’s bones,(A) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(B) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land(C) that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[a] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

15 And (A)Jacob went down to Egypt, and he and our fathers died there. 16 And they were brought back from there to [a](B)Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of [b]Hamor in [c]Shechem.

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  1. Acts 7:16 Gr Sychem
  2. Acts 7:16 Gr Emmor
  3. Acts 7:16 Gr Sychem

15 Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.(A) 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.(B)

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