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25 (A) Now promise me that you will take my body with you when God leads you to that land.”

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25 And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath(A) and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones(B) up from this place.”(C)

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32 (A) When the people of Israel left Egypt, they brought the bones of Joseph along with them. They took the bones to the town of Shechem and buried them in the field that Jacob had bought for 100 pieces of silver[a] from Hamor, the founder of Shechem. The town and the field both[b] became part of the land belonging to the descendants of Joseph.

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Footnotes

  1. 24.32 pieces of silver: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew word.
  2. 24.32 town … both: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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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Footnotes

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