And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
#genesis 50:6 #biblestudy
Contrast the Pharaoh of Joseph with the later Pharaoh who refused even to let the Israelites go out into the wilderness to worship. This Pharaoh knew Joseph and trusted him with his life and kingdom. The later Pharaoh hated and feared Israel.
It's interesting that the route of Jacob's funeral caravan took the same route that the freed Hebrew slaves would take out of Egypt generations later. See v10-11.