Genesis 49:29

And he commanded them, and said to them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cavern which is in the field of Ephron the Hitaah;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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,

In Context

28All these the tribes of Israel are twelve; and this it is which their father spake to them, and blessed them; according to the blessing of each man, blessed he them.

30In the cavern which is in the double field over against Mamre, in the land of Kenaan, which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hitaah for an inheritancesepulchre.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:15And thou shalt be gathered to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in good old age.

Genesis 23:20And the field and the cavern which is in it were confirmed to Abraham for the possession of a sepulchre from the sons of Hittah.

Genesis 25:9And Izhak and Ishmael his sons buried him in the twofold cave in the field of Ephron bar Zochar, the Hittah, which is before Mamre;

Genesis 35:29And Izhak expired and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and content with days; and Esau and Jakob his sons buried him.

Genesis 50:12And his sons did as he had commanded them.

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 →

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