John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 47:30

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But I will lie with my fathers, etc.] Abraham and Isaac, whose bodies lay in the land of Canaan, where Jacob desired to be buried; partly to express his faith in the promised land, that it should be the inheritance of his posterity; and partly to draw off their minds from a continuance in Egypt, and to incline them to think of removing thither at a proper time, and to confirm them in the belief of their enjoyment of it; as well as to intimate his desire after, and faith in the heavenly glory he was going to, of which Canaan was a type: and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt; into the land of Canaan: and bury me in their burying place; in the burying place of his fathers, in the cave of Machpelah, near Hebron; (see <014930>Genesis 49:30,31); and he said, I will do as thou hast said; Joseph promised his father to fulfil his request, and do as he had desired of him.

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