Gen 50:24 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Gen 50:24-25: 50:24-25 God will surely come to help you (literally visit you ): These words of Joseph, given twice, summarize the hope expressed throughout both the Old Testament and the New Testament. God’s visitation in the person of the Messiah, the offspring of Abraham, would bring the curse to an end and establish the long-awaited blessing of God in a new creation. The company of the faithful would wait in expectation for that to happen. • Like his father before him, Joseph made his brothers promise that his bones would be taken out of Egypt when God would come to take them ( to help you and lead you back ) to Canaan (see Exod 13:19 ; Josh 24:32 ; Heb 11:22 ).

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‏ Genesis 50:24

Summary for Gen 50:24-25: 50:24-25 ^a God will surely come to help you (literally visit you): These words of Joseph, given twice, summarize the hope expressed throughout both the Old Testament and the New Testament. God’s visitation in the person of the Messiah, the offspring of Abraham, would bring the curse to an end and establish the long-awaited blessing of God in a new creation. The company of the faithful would wait in expectation for that to happen.

• Like his father before him, Joseph made his brothers promise that his bones would be taken out of Egypt when God would come to take them (to help you and lead you back) to Canaan (see Exod 13:19 ^b; Josh 24:32 ^c; Heb 11:22 ^d).