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The Death and Burial of Jacob

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing. 29 Then he instructed them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors[a] in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is before[b] Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:29 Or “fathers”
  2. Genesis 49:30 Or “east of”