“And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.”
And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said: God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place. The oath about Joseph's bones is the covenant declaration that he belongs in Canaan, not in Egypt. Exodus 13:19 records Moses taking the bones; Joshua 24:32 records the burial at Shechem. The application: the covenant person who asks that their bones be carried home is the person whose faith in the promise of return is stronger than the comfort of staying. The bones of Joseph will travel to Canaan four hundred years after this request.
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