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וישבע יוסף את בני ישראל, “Joseph adjured the Children of Israel.” When he realized that his brothers were advanced in age, he included also their offspring in this oath as none of his surviving brothers might be alive when the Israelites would leave Egypt. Everyone knew of the exile that awaited them in Egypt and that its conditions would be very harsh. The reason that he did not make them swear to transfer his remains to the Land of Canaan immediately after his death, may well have been that he knew that it was beyond their political power to have such an illustrious ruler as Joseph buried in a foreign country.

Er beschwor, nicht die Brüder, sondern "בני ישראל" somit auch die kommenden Geschlechter. Es liegt keine Anmaßung in dieser Verpflichtung, sie hatten ihn ja herabgebracht, es lag eine kleine Sühne darin, er durfte ihnen diese Verpflichtung auferlegen. Zugleich waren die Verpflichtung und die Gebeine, an denen sie in Erfüllung gebracht werden sollte, eine Bürgschaft für die Zuversicht, mit welcher sie der Rückkehr nach Kanaan entgegenharren sollten.