“When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,”
Genesis 47:29
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Connection with Abraham's thigh oath
This is the only other time Scripture records the hand-under-the-thigh oath, and again it is about the land. Abraham's oath kept Isaac from going back to Mesopotamia; Jacob's kept his body from being buried in Egypt.
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