After this, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Makhpelah before Mamre (that is, Chevron), in the land of Kena`an.
Genesis 15:15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) but you will go to your fathers in shalom. You will be buried in a good old age. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
After this, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Makhpelah before Mamre (that is, Chevron), in the land of Kena`an.
*I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.*
Yitzchak gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esav and Ya`akov, his sons, buried him.
but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.* He said, *I will do as you have said.*
He charged them, and said to them, *I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of `Efron the Chittite,
There they buried Avraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Yitzchak and Rivka, his wife, and there I buried Le'ah:
for his sons carried him into the land of Kena`an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Makhpelah, which Avraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from `Efron the Chittite, before Mamre.
Now David was old and full of days; and he made Shlomo his son king over Yisra'el.
He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Shlomo his son reigned in his place.
Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in shalom, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of shalom.
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
But go you your way until the end be; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
Aharon shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Yisra'el, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Merivah.
When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aharon your brother was gathered;
'I am the God of Avraham, and the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov?' 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 asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
The LORD said to Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know the LORD, nor yet the work which he had worked for Yisra'el.