25 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.” 26 So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis 50:25–26
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