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And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying “God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.”

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin. (Genesis 50:25-26)

According to the Bible class lessons, Edgar Cayce believed Joseph had foreknowledge about his descendants going into bondage. This premonition, Cayce said, may have been Joseph’s reason for the oath, which requested his body be kept with them. During the forty years in the wilderness, the children of Israel carried Joseph’s body with them, although no mention is made of those who had the responsibility of caring for it. This was four centuries after Joseph’s death.

If his kinsmen had taken his body to Canaan immediately after his death, as they did with Jacob, perhaps the Egyptians would not have allowed the Israelites back into Egypt to settle—and history might have been changed.

Apparently Joseph knew that his body would be a protection for his people.