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Genesis 46:4

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will go: Genesis 28:15, Genesis 48:21; Isaiah 43:1-2

and I will: Genesis 15:14-16, Genesis 50:5, Genesis 50:13, Genesis 50:24-25; Exodus 3:8

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. Genesis 50:1

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