Genesis 50:13 (DBY)

Passage

and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.

Nearby Context

Genesis 50:11 And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50:12 And his sons did to him according as he had commanded them;

Genesis 50:13 and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.

Genesis 50:14 And, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that had gone up with him to bury his father.

Genesis 50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sons", "carried", "land", "canaan", "buried", "cave", "field", and "machpelah". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sons" and "carried", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "And his sons did to him according..." into verse 14's "And after he had buried his father...", so "sons" and "carried" belong inside that flow. In Genesis context, the local focus is creation, human rebellion, covenant promise, and God's providence.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sons" and "carried" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.