Genesis 47:29
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The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land where Jacob and his family had settled during the famine, chiefly in the fertile region of Goshen, also called Rameses, in Egypt’s northeastern Nile delta. As Jacob neared death, he asked Joseph not to bury him there but in Canaan, the land God had promised to Abraham’s family.
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Genesis 47:29 mentions Canaan, Egypt, Goshen and Rameses.
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