Genesi 50:25

25 E Giuseppe fece giurare i figliuoli d’Israele, dicendo: Iddio per certo vi visiterà; allora trasportate di qui le mie ossa.

Genesi 50:25 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel
Not of his brethren only, but of their posterity, as many of them as were now grown up, that so it might be communicated from one to another, and become well known to that generation which should depart out of Egypt:

saying, God will surely visit you;
which he repeats for the certainty of it, and that it might be observed:

and ye shall carry up my bones from hence;
when they should go from thence to Canaan's land; he did not desire them to carry him thither when he should die, which he knew would give umbrage to the Egyptians, and they would not be so able to obtain leave to do it as he had for his father. This was accordingly done; when Israel went out of Egypt, Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, and they were buried in Shechem; see ( Exodus 13:19 ) ( Joshua 24:32 ) .

Genesi 50:25 In-Context

23 E vide ad Efraim figliuoli della terza generazione; i figliuoli di Machir, figliuolo di Manasse, nacquero anch’essi, e furono allevati sopra le ginocchia di Giuseppe.

24 E Giuseppe disse a’ suoi fratelli: Tosto morrò, e Iddio per certo vi visiterà, e vi farà salire fuor di questo paese, nel paese il quale egli giurò ad Abrahamo, a Isacco, e a Giacobbe.

25 E Giuseppe fece giurare i figliuoli d’Israele, dicendo: Iddio per certo vi visiterà; allora trasportate di qui le mie ossa.

26 Poi Giuseppe morì, essendo di età di centodieci anni; e fu imbalsamato, e posto in un cataletto in Egitto.