Jacob’s Last Instructions

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them: he blessed each one with the blessing appropriate to him.

29Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,”

30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial property.

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

32The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the sons of Heth.

33When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.