Genesis 50:6

6 And Pharaoh said , Go up , and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear .

Genesis 50:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 50:6

And Pharaoh said
To Joseph, by the courtiers that waited upon him at Joseph's request, who having delivered it to him had this answer: go up, and bury thy father, as he made thee swear;
the oath seems to be the principal thing that influenced Pharaoh to grant the request, it being a sacred thing, and not to be violated; otherwise, perhaps, he would not have chosen that Joseph should have been so long absent from him, and might have thought a grave in Egypt, and an honourable interment there, which he would have spared no cost to have given, might have done as well, or better.

Genesis 50:6 In-Context

4 And when the days of his mourning were past , Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying , If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak , I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying ,

5 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 .

6 And Pharaoh said , Go up , and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear .

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.