30 but (A)let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and (B)bury me in their burial place.”

And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

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Jacob’s Death and Burial

29 Then he charged them and said to them: “I (A)am to be gathered to my people; (B)bury me with my fathers (C)in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, (D)which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place. 31 (E)There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, (F)there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. 32 The field and the cave that is there were purchased from the sons of Heth.”

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And (A)his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of (B)Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

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19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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15 (A)So Jacob went down to Egypt; (B)and he died, he and our fathers. 16 And (C)they were carried back to Shechem and laid in (D)the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

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and said to the king, (A)“May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when (B)the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with (C)fire?”

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22 but you came back, ate bread, and drank water in the (A)place of which the Lord said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”

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37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant (A)Chimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.”

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25 Then (A)Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely [a]visit you, and (B)you shall carry up my (C)bones from here.”

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  1. Genesis 50:25 give attention to

(A)‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying; in my grave (B)which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’ ”

And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”

So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering.

10 Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they (C)mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. (D)He observed seven days of mourning for his father. 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called [a]Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

12 So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them. 13 For (E)his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham (F)bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place. 14 And after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:11 Lit. Mourning of Egypt

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