From the [things] said [in] Genesis 40:24 [recte 50:24], [it] is clear [that] Joseph, dying, bound the Israelites by an oath, [so] that [they] should one day transport his bones out of Egypt, where [he] was dying, into [the land of] Chanaan. And [that] this was done accurately [faithfully], we saw attested (Exod. 13:19). Those sacred bones of the most holy Patriarch, therefore, [are] narrated [as] committed to the earth under the end of this chapter [v. 32]. But Masius thinks this [was] done before the division [sortitio] of the land itself — namely, when, at the mountains Hebal and Garizim [Ebal and Gerizim], the covenant [was] entered by the people with God (above, ch. 8). Others prefer [it was] after the division — namely, when the land [was] now at peace, and Sichem [Shechem], [freed] from all
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[…and Sichem,] free from all attack of the enemy. But according to that former opinion [Masius’s], this narration would not be placed in its [proper] place here, but [would be inserted] only by occasion of the death and sepulchres of Joshua and Eleazar, concerning which a little after. According to the latter [opinion], [it] is still to be asked: whether [the bones] were buried before Joshua’s death, or after? And this latter the very order of the text signifies.