Treasury of Scripture
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Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where you go, and will bring you again into this land...
Genesis 48:21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Isaiah 43:1,2 But now thus said the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you...
and I will.
Genesis 15:14-16 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance...
Genesis 50:5,13,24,25 My father made me swear, saying, See, I die: in my grave which I have dig for me in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me...
Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large...
and Joseph. This last and most solemn office, as Mr. Hewlett observes, that could be paid to a parent, was generally performed by the nearest relation of the deceased. This promise must have given great consolation to the venerable patriarch's mind.
