Genesis 50:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

So Jacob's sons did just as their father had instructed.

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Later their bodies were taken back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor.

Children, you belong to the Lord, and you do the right thing when you obey your parents. The first commandment with a promise says,

Respect your father and your mother, and you will live a long time in the land I am giving you.

The Canaanites saw this and said, “The Egyptians are in great sorrow.” Then they named the place “Egypt in Sorrow.”

They took him to Mamre in Canaan and buried him in Machpelah Cave, the burial place Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite.