Genesis 46:4
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4 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.”(A)
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Exodus 3:8
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8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.(A)
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Genesis 50:1
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50 Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.(A)
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Genesis 48:21
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21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your ancestors.(A)
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Genesis 28:15
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15 Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”(A)
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Isaiah 43:1-2
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Restoration and Protection Promised
43 But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name; you are mine.(A)
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you,
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.(B)
Genesis 50:5
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5 My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.”(A)
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Genesis 50:24-25
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24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely come to you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”(A) 25 So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.”
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Genesis 50:13
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13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.(A)
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Genesis 15:14-16
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14 but I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.(A) 15 As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.(B) 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”(C)
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