that it should be the inheritance of his posterity; and partly to draw off their minds from a continuance in Egypt, and to incline them to think of removing thither at a proper time, and to confirm them in the belief of their enjoyment of it; as well as to intimate his desire after, and faith in the heavenly glory he was going to, of which Canaan was a type: and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt; into the land of Canaan: and bury me in their burying place; in the burying place of his fathers, in the cave of Machpelah, near Hebron; see Gen 49:30 , and he said, I will do as thou hast said; Joseph promised his father to fulfil his request, and do as he had desired of him.