Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
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Gill's Exposition
And Joseph returned into Egypt,.... As he promised he would, Gen 50:5.
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