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  • Genesis 47:29
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 29 The time was approaching for Israel to die,+ so he called his son Joseph and said: “If, now, I have found favor in your eyes, place your hand, please, under my thigh, and show loyal love and faithfulness to me. Please, do not bury me in Egypt.+

  • Genesis 47:29
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 29 The time was approaching for Israel to die,+ so he called his son Joseph and said: “If, now, I have found favor in your eyes, place your hand, please, under my thigh, and show loyal love and faithfulness to me. Please, do not bury me in Egypt.+

  • Genesis 47:29
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 29 Gradually the days approached for Israel to die.+ So he called his son Joseph and said to him: “If, now, I have found favor in your eyes, place your hand, please, under my thigh,+ and you must exercise loving-kindness and trustworthiness* toward me.+ (Please, do not bury me in Egypt.)+

  • Genesis 47:29
    The Bible in Living English
    • 29 And Israel’s time for dying drew near; and he called his son Joseph and said to him “If you have any goodwill for me, put your hand under my thigh and do kindly and loyally by me: do not bury me in Egypt;

  • Genesis 47:29
    American Standard Version
    • 29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;

  • Genesis 47:29
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 29 And the days of Israel drew near that he must die, so he called for his son, for Joseph, and said to him—If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, place, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,—so shalt thou deal with me in lovingkindness and faithfulness—Do not, I pray thee, bury me in Egypt.

  • Genesis
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 47:29 it-1 217

  • Genesis
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 47:29 ad 164; w37 91

  • Genesis
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 47:29

      Insight, Volume 1, p. 217

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