OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 13:19

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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.”

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Verse 19. Joseph’s. This attention to the dead is commended. Hebrews 11. Worthington.—S. Stephen assures us, that the bones of the other patriarchs were deposited at Sichen; and we may conclude, that they were transported on this occasion by their respective families. Acts 7:16.

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