The Death of Jacob

²⁹ Then he gave them these instructions:^(A) “I am about to be gathered to my people.^(B) Bury me with my fathers^(C) in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,^(D)

⁵ ‘My father made me swear an oath^(A) and said, “I am about to die;^(B) bury me in the tomb I dug for myself^(C) in the land of Canaan.”^(D) Now let me go up and bury my father;^(E) then I will return.’”

¹³ They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,^(A) near Mamre,^(B) which Abraham had bought along with the field^(C) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.^(D)