And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 15:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old (hoary) age. American Standard Version (1901) But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Common English Bible As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life. Catholic Public Domain Version But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. |
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
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,
there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah:
for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought the king word again.
He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: For the latter end of that man is peace.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and shalt stand in thy lot, at the end of the days.
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered:
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel.