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Genesis 49:29-50:14 — The Death of Jacob

Gen.49.29-50.14

²⁹Then he commanded them, saying, "I am being gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought, together with the field, from Ephron the Hittite as a burial property. ³¹There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah. ³²The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the sons of Heth." ³³When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet onto the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

Chapter 50

¹Then Joseph fell on his father's face, wept over him, and kissed him. ²And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians , to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. ³Forty days were completed for him, for that is how many the days of embalming require; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days. ⁴When the days of mourning for him had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak to Pharaoh on my behalf, saying, ⁵“My father made me swear, saying, 'Behold, I am dying. In the grave I dug out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.' So now, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.” ⁶And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.” ⁷So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, ⁸as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their little children, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen . ⁹Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, and the company was very great. ¹⁰When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he observed mourning for his father seven days. ¹¹When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for Egypt.” Therefore it was called Abel-mizraim , which is beyond the Jordan . ¹²So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them. ¹³His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field as a burial property from Ephron the Hittite, opposite Mamre. ¹⁴After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

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4/11/2026

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