Quotes about Death
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
— Genesis 47:29
but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”
— Genesis 47:30
Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
— Genesis 48:7
Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
— Genesis 48:21
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
— Genesis 50:2
my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
— Genesis 50:5
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
— Genesis 50:24
So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
— Genesis 50:26
Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
— Exodus 1:6
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
— Exodus 7:18
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
— Exodus 7:21
And the LORD did as Moses requested, and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.
— Exodus 8:13