Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Genesis 49:29 - 49:33

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Genesis 49:29 - 49:33


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The Death of Jacob

v. 29. And he charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people,
the time when his soul was to be added to those of his fathers was at hand; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron, the Hittite,

v. 30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron, the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.

v. 31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife; and there I buried Leah.

v. 32. The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
Cf Genesis 23. What Jacob had charged Joseph to do in the event of his death, Gen_47:30-31, he here repeated to all his sons, giving them explicit directions regarding the burial-ground, lest they make any mistake about it or neglect the speedy execution of his dying wish.

v. 33. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet in to the bed,
for he had been sitting on his couch, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people, the expression which denotes also here the hope of a final glorious resurrection unto eternal life, a resurrection which will surely come to all that have waited for, and believed in, the salvation of the Lord.