1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Exodus 13:19

And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: *God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

Genesis 50:24.

Joseph's. This attention to the dead is commended, Hebrews 11. (Worthington) --- St. Stephen assures us, that the bones of the other patriarchs were deposited at Sichen; and we may conclude, that they were transported on this occasion by their respective families, Acts 7:16.