Genesis 49:29
Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide the spoil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 23:20And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.
Genesis 25:9And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre;
Genesis 35:29And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 50:12So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.
2 Samuel 19:37But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:29-33
Death of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers 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, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a… Read the whole commentary →