“My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.”
My father made me swear an oath and said, I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan. Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return. The appeal to the sworn oath — my father made me swear — is the appeal to the covenant obligation that supersedes even Pharaoh's convenience. The application: the covenant oath sworn to a dying parent is the obligation that commands the return to the covenant land.
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