Joshua 24:32

And the bones of Joseph For the careful instructions of this patriarch respecting his remains, see Genesis 50:24-25; and for their careful removal from Egypt by Moses, see Exodus 13:19.

brought up out of Egypt The body of the patriarch was embalmed, and placed in an Egyptian coffin. The sacred burden had been borne by the two tribes of the house of Joseph all through the wanderings of the wilderness, and was now reverently laid

in a parcel of ground which Jacob had bought for a hundred pieces of silver, of the sons of Hamor (Genesis 33:19), and given "to the favourite son of his favourite Rachel."

an hundred pieces of silver or lambs, "for an hundrid yonge scheep," Wyclif. See Genesis 33:19, margin; but comp. Acts 7:16.

and it became i. e. the plot of ground, as well as Shechem.