Genesis 49:29

Easy To Read Version

Then Israel gave them a command. He said, “When I die, I want to be with my people. I want to be buried with my ancestors [261] in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

Cross References

Genesis 15:15

“You yourself will live to be very old. You will die in peace. And you will be buried with your family.

Genesis 23:16

Abraham understood that Ephron was telling him the price of the land. [130] So Abraham paid him for the land. Abraham weighed 10 pounds [131] of silver for Ephron and gave it to the merchant. [132]

Genesis 23:20

Abraham bought the field and the cave on it from the Hittite people. This became his property, and he used it as a burying place.

Genesis 23:9

I would like to buy the cave of Machpelah. Ephron owns this. It is at the end of his field. I will pay him the full price—all that it is worth. I want all of you to be witnesses that I am buying it as a burial place.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Genesis 35:29

Then Isaac became weak and died. Isaac had lived a long and full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him in the same place as his father.

Genesis 47:30

Bury me in the place where my ancestors [253] are buried. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in our family grave.”

Genesis 49:28

Those are the twelve families of Israel. And those are the things their father said to them. He gave each son a blessing that was right for him.

Genesis 49:33

After Jacob finished talking to his sons, he lay down, put his feet back on the bed and died.

Genesis 50:12

So Jacob’s sons did what their father told them.

Genesis 50:13

They carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah. This was the cave near Mamre in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite. Abraham bought that cave to use as a burial place.

2 Samuel 19:37

But please, let me go back home. Then I can die in my own town and be buried in the grave of my father and mother. But here, Kimham can be your servant; let him go back with you, my lord and king. Do whatever you want with him.”

Hebrews 12:23

You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn {\cf2\super [167]} children. Their names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people. And you have come to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.