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And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

46:4 upon thine eyes. That is, Jacob would be with his beloved Joseph at his death, and Joseph then would lovingly close his father’s eyes as he died.


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