Genesis 50:25

25 Yosef took an oath of the children of Yisra'el, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

Genesis 50:25 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel
Not of his brethren only, but of their posterity, as many of them as were now grown up, that so it might be communicated from one to another, and become well known to that generation which should depart out of Egypt:

saying, God will surely visit you;
which he repeats for the certainty of it, and that it might be observed:

and ye shall carry up my bones from hence;
when they should go from thence to Canaan's land; he did not desire them to carry him thither when he should die, which he knew would give umbrage to the Egyptians, and they would not be so able to obtain leave to do it as he had for his father. This was accordingly done; when Israel went out of Egypt, Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, and they were buried in Shechem; see ( Exodus 13:19 ) ( Joshua 24:32 ) .

Genesis 50:25 In-Context

23 Yosef saw Efrayim's children to the third generation. The children also of Makhir, the son of Menashsheh, were born on Yosef's knees.

24 Yosef said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov."

25 Yosef took an oath of the children of Yisra'el, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

26 So Yosef died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Mitzrayim.