Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"Swear it to me," he pressed. And Joseph swore. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd he said, "Swear it to me." And he swore to him. Then Yisra'el bowed at the head of the bed.
KJV
King James VersionAnd he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.
Footnotes
The Hebrew consonants מטה (m-t-h) are ambiguous without vowel points: the Masoretic Text points them as מִטָּה (mittah, "bed"), while the LXX reads מַטֶּה (matteh, "staff"). Hebrews 11:21 follows the LXX — "Jacob, when dying, bowed in worship leaning on the top of his staff" — imaging the patriarch as a sojourner who lived and died with his pilgrim's staff in hand, worshipping toward a promise not yet fulfilled. Both versions follow the MT reading of "bed"; the LXX/Hebrews reading, equally valid from the consonantal text, draws out a powerful typological portrait of faith-in-pilgrimage that F.O.G Message implicitly honours in its rendering "bowed in worship."
