Whose bones, brought up from Egypt, were finally buried at Shechem in the land his father Jacob had bought?
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Correct answer: Joseph
Joseph had made the Israelites swear to carry his bones out of Egypt (Genesis 50). This promise was fulfilled at the end of the conquest when he was buried in his ancestral plot in Ephraim.
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