OET-RV by section GEN 47:27

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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Ya’akov’s burial request

47:27 Ya’akov’s burial request

27 So Yisrael (Israel) (also called Ya’akov (Jacob) ) and his descendants settled in the Goshen region of Mitsrayim (Egypt) and prospered. The had many children and quickly increased in number. 28 Ya’akov resided there for seventeen years, and by then he was 147 years old 29 and he was getting close to death, so he called for his son Yosef (Joseph) and asked him, “If, please, I have found favour in your eyes, please give me your hand and promise to deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Please don’t bury me in Mitsrayim.[ref] 30 When I die, I want to be buried with my ancestors, so carry me out of Mitsrayim and bury me in their tomb.”

“I’ll do what you’ve requested,” Yosef agreed.

31 “Promise me,” he insisted. So Yosef promised him and Yisrael bowed at the head of the bed.[fn]

47:31 Some translations assume that elderly Ya’akov/Yisrael bowed to God in worship after speaking with Yosef, but it’s not impossible that he bowed to Yosef in acknowledgement of the high position that God had brought Yosef to as foretold by his dreams.

47:29-30: Gen 49:29-32; 50:6.