Quotes About Legacy

Then Joseph fell upon his fatherís face, wept over him, and kissed him.

And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

my father made me swear an oath when he said, ëI am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.í Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”

Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.

So Jacobís sons did as he had charged them.

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,

Now Joseph and his fatherís household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.

He saw Ephraimís sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Josephís knees.

And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”

Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.

The holy garments that belong to Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed and ordained in them.

“See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ëI will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.í”