Genesis 49:33

And Jakob ceased to instruct his sons, and drew his feet together in the bed, and died, and was gathered unto his people.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

In Context

32The field, and the cavern that is in it, purchased of the sons of Hitaah.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:8And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, aged, and full of days; and he was gathered unto his people.

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 49:24And his prophecy shall be fulfilled in them, because he was faithful to the law in secret, and set his confidence firmly. Therefore was gold laid upon his arm, and the kingdom was strengthened and confirmed. This was to him from the mighty God of Jacob, who by His Word pastureth the fathers and the children of the seed of Israel.

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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