Genesis 48:21 Parallel Translations

Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now I'm about to die, but God will be with you. He will bring you back to the land of your fathers.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

ASV:

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

BBE:

Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

DBY:

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

ERV:

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

JPS:

And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and bring you back unto the land of your fathers.

WBS:

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

WEB:

Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

YLT:

And Israel saith unto Joseph, 'Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers;

Genesis 48:21 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 26:3 "Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 28:15 "Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Genesis 46:4 "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes."

Genesis 50:24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of {i} your fathers.
(i) Which they had by faith in the promise.

WES:

48:21 I die, but God shall be with you, and bring you again - This assurance was given them, and carefully preserved among them, that they might neither love Egypt too much when it favoured them, nor fear it too much when it frowned upon them. These words of Jacob furnish us with comfort in reference to the death of our friends: But God shall be with us, and his gracious presence is sufficient to make up the loss. They leave us, but he will never fail us. He will bring us to the land of our fathers, the heavenly Canaan, whither our godly fathers are gone before us. If God be with us while we stay behind in this world, and will receive us shortly to be with them that are gone before to a better world, we ought not to sorrow as those that have no hope.

MHC:

48:8-22 The two good men own God in their comforts. Joseph says, They are my sons whom God has given me. Jacob says, God hath showed me thy seed. Comforts are doubly sweet to us when we see them coming from God's hand. He not only prevents our fears, but exceeds our hopes. Jacob mentions the care the Divine providence had taken of him all his days. A great deal of hardship he had known in his time, but God kept him from the evil of his troubles. Now he was dying, he looked upon himself as redeemed from all sin and sorrow for ever. Christ, the Angel of the covenant, redeems from all evil. Deliverances from misery and dangers, by the Divine power, coming through the ransom of the blood of Christ, in Scripture are often called redemption. In blessing Joseph's sons, Jacob crossed hands. Joseph was willing to support his first-born, and would have removed his father's hands. But Jacob acted neither by mistake, nor from a partial affection to one more than the other; but from a spirit of prophecy, and by the Divine counsel. God, in bestowing blessings upon his people, gives more to some than to others, more gifts, graces, and comforts, and more of the good things of this life. He often gives most to those that are least likely. He chooses the weak things of the world; he raises the poor out of the dust. Grace observes not the order of nature, nor does God prefer those whom we think fittest to be preferred, but as it pleases him. How poor are they who have no riches but those of this world! How miserable is a death-bed to those who have no well-grounded hope of good, but dreadful apprehensions of evil, and nothing but evil for ever!

CONC:

Behold Bring Death Die Dying Fathers Guiding Joseph

Death Die Dying Fathers Guiding Israel Joseph

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