Genesis 50:12

Green's Literal Translation

And his sons did to him as he had commanded them.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

King James Version
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

Lexham English Bible
Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them.

New Century Version
So Jacob's sons did as their father commanded.

New English Translation
So the sons of Jacob did for him just as he had instructed them.

Amplified Bible
So Jacob's sons did for him as he had commanded them;

New American Standard Bible
And so his sons did for him as he had commanded them;

Geneva Bible (1587)
So his sonnes did vnto him, according as he had commanded them:

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them.

Contemporary English Version
So Jacob's sons did just as their father had instructed.

Complete Jewish Bible
His sons did to him as he had ordered them to do —

Darby Translation
And his sons did to him according as he had commanded them;

Easy-to-Read Version
So Jacob's sons did what their father told them.

English Standard Version
Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,

George Lamsa Translation
And his sons did to Jacob just as he had commanded them;

Good News Translation
So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them;

Christian Standard Bible®
So Jacob’s sons did for him what he had commanded them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And his children dyd as he had comaunded them,

American Standard Version
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

Bible in Basic English
So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And his sonnes dyd vnto hym accordyng as he had commaunded them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them.

King James Version (1611)
And his sonnes did vnto him according as he commanded them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thus his sons did to him.

English Revised Version
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

Berean Standard Bible
So Jacob's sons did as he had charged them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the sones of Jacob diden, as he hadde comaundid to hem;

Young's Literal Translation
And his sons do to him so as he commanded them,

Update Bible Version
And his sons did to him according to as he commanded them:

Webster's Bible Translation
And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:

World English Bible
His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

New King James Version
So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.

New Living Translation
So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them.

New Life Bible
Jacob's sons did as he had told them.

New Revised Standard
Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And his sons did for him thus as he had commanded them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

Revised Standard Version
Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;

THE MESSAGE
Jacob's sons continued to carry out his instructions to the letter. They took him on into Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, the field that Abraham had bought as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus his sons did for him as he had charged them;

Contextual Overview

⁷ And Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, the elders of his house, even all the elders of the land of Egypt, ⁸ and all the house of Joseph and his brothers, and the house of his father. Only, they left their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. ⁹ And both horsemen and chariots went up with him; and the company was very great. ¹⁰ And they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns, which is on the other side of the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a lamentation for his father seven days. ¹¹ And those living in the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing in the grain floor of thorns. And they said, This is a very great wailing to Egypt; for this reason its name was called The Meadow of Egypt, which is on the otherside of Jordan. ¹² And his sons did to him as he had commanded them. ¹³ And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah; the field which Abraham bought for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. ¹⁴ And after he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all those going up with him to bury his father.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 47:29-31, Genesis 49:29-32, Exodus 20:12, Acts 7:16, Ephesians 6:1

Cross-References

Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.

Acts 7:16
And they were moved into Shechem, and were put in the tomb which Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them. Not only Joseph, but all the sons of Jacob were concerned in the burial of him, being all charged by him with it, and who were obedient to his commands as follows; see Genesis 49:29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- The Burial of Jacob

10. אטד 'āṭâd Atad, “the buck-thorn.”

11. מצרים אבל 'ābêl-mı̂tsrayı̂m, Abel-Mitsraim, “mourning of Mizraim,” or meadow of Mizraim.

This chapter records the burial of Jacob and the death of Joseph, and so completes the history of the chosen family, and the third bible for the instruction of man.

Genesis 50:1-3

After the natural outburst of sorrow for his deceased parent, Joseph gave orders to embalm the body, according to the custom of Egypt. “His servants, the physicians.” As the grand vizier of Egypt, he has physicians in his retinue. The classes and functions of the physicians in Egypt may be learned from Herodotus (ii. 81-86). There were special physicians for each disease; and the embalmers formed a class by themselves. “Forty days” were employed in the process of embalming; “seventy days,” including the forty, were devoted to mourning for the dead. Herodotus mentions this number as the period of embalming. Diodorus (i. 91) assigns upwards of thirty days to the process. It is probable that the actual process was continued for forty days, and that the body lay in natron for the remaining thirty days of mourning. See Hengstenberg’s B. B. Mos. u. Aeg., and Rawlinson’s Herodotus.

Genesis 50:4-6

Joseph, by means of Pharaoh’s courtiers, not in person, because he was a mourner, applies for leave to bury his father in the land of Kenaan, according to his oath. This leave is freely and fully allowed.

Genesis 50:7-14

The funeral procession is now described. “All the servants of Pharaoh.” The highest honor is conferred on Jacob for Joseph’s sake. “The elders of Pharaoh, and all the elders of the land of Mizraim.” The court and state officials are here separately specified. “All the house.” Not only the heads, but all the sons and servants that are able to go. Chariots and horsemen accompany them as a guard on the way. “The threshing-floor of Atari, or of the buck-thorn.” This is said to be beyond Jordan. Deterred, probably, by some difficulty in the direct route, they seem to have gone round by the east side of the Salt Sea. “A mourning of seven days.” This is a last sad farewell to the departed patriarch. Abel-Mizraim. This name, like many in the East, has a double meaning. The word Abel no doubt at first meant mourning, though the name would be used by many, ignorant of its origin, in the sense of a meadow. “His sons carried him.” The main body of the procession seems to have halted beyond the Jordan, and awaited the return of the immediate relatives, who conveyed the body to its last resting-place. The whole company then returned together to Egypt.

Genesis 50:15-21

His brethren supplicate Joseph for forgiveness. “They sent unto Joseph,” commissioned one of their number to speak to him. now that our common father has given us this command. “And Joseph wept” at the distress and doubt of his brothers. He no doubt summons them before him, when they fall down before him entreating his forgiveness. Joseph removes their fears. “Am I in God’s stead?” that I should take the law into my own hands, and take revenge. God has already judged them, and moreover turned their sinful deed into a blessing. He assures them of his brotherly kindness toward them.

Genesis 50:22-26

The biography of Joseph is now completed. “The children of the third generation” - the grandsons of grandsons in the line of Ephraim. We have here an explicit proof that an interval of about twenty years between the births of the father and that of his first-born was not unusual during the lifetime of Joseph. “And Joseph took an oath.” He thus expressed his unwavering confidence in the return of the sons of Israel to the land of promise. “God will surely visit.” He was embalmed and put in a coffin, and so kept by his descendants, as was not unusual in Egypt. And on the return of the sons of Israel from Egypt they kept their oath to Joseph Exodus 13:19, and buried his bones in Shekem Joshua 24:32.

The sacred writer here takes leave of the chosen family, and closes the bible of the sons of Israel. It is truly a wonderful book. It lifts the veil of mystery that hangs over the present condition of the human race. It records the origin and fall of man, and thus explains the co-existence of moral evil and a moral sense, and the hereditary memory of God and judgment in the soul of man. It records the cause and mode of the confusion of tongues, and thus explains the concomitance of the unity of the race and the specific diversity of mode or form in human speech. It records the call of Abraham, and thus accounts for the preservation of the knowledge of God and his mercy in one section of the human race, and the corruption or loss of it in all the rest. We need scarcely remark that the six days’ creation accounts for the present state of nature. It thus solves the fundamental questions of physics, ethics, philology, and theology for the race of Adam. It notes the primitive relation of man to God, and marks the three great stages of human development that came in with Adam, Noah, and Abraham. It points out the three forms of sin that usher in these stages - the fall of Adam, the intermarriage of the sons of God with the daughters of men, and the building of the tower of Babel. It gradually unfolds the purpose and method of grace to the returning penitent through a Deliverer who is successively announced as the seed of the woman, of Shem, of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah. This is the second Adam, who, when the covenant of works was about to fall to the ground through the failure of the first Adam, undertook to uphold it by fulfilling all its conditions on behalf of those who are the objects of the divine grace.

Hence, the Lord establishes his covenant successively with Adam, Noah, and Abraham; with Adam after the fall tacitly, with Noah expressly, and with both generally as the representatives of the race descending from them; with Abraham especially and instrumentally as the channel through which the blessings of salvation might be at length extended to all the families of the earth. So much of this plan of mercy is revealed from time to time to the human race as comports with the progress they have made in the education of the intellectual, moral, and active faculties. This only authentic epitome of primeval history is worthy of the constant study of intelligent and responsible man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Genesis 50:12. And his sons did unto him — This and the thirteenth verse have been supposed by Mr. Locke and others to belong to the conclusion of the preceding chapter, in which connection they certainly read more consistently than they do here.