...his sons to remove his body from Egypt, when they should leave that country ; " Bury me," said he " with my fathers, " in the cave that is in the field of Macphelah ; there they buried Abraham and 52 53 " Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca...

...this ancient Custom, at least, to a certain extent, for ages to come. " Bury me with my fathers, ill the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite....Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah" Gen. xlix. From I numerous passages in the Old Testament and in profane history, it is evident that...

...me," says the dying Patriarch "in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah in the land of Canaan : there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife : there...Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah." It is usual to attach much importance to the last words of a departing brother, or sister, and these...

...Jacob buried him.' 8 When Jacob was dying, he said to his sons, ' I am to be gathered unto my people ; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons,...

...blessed them. 29 If And he charged them, and said unto them, I • am to be gathered unto my people : ' w wLl s o h o w w v v l w w w ufo+bWw e e G 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, (which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan,) 'which...

...lie with my fathers. And thou shall carry me out of Egypt ; and bury me in their buryingplace.' — ' There they buried Abraham, and Sarah, his wife ; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca, his wife ; and there I buried Leah.' " Such are the natural expressions of human feeling,...

...their burying-place." "And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people ; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite." " In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which...

...Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the ffittite for a possession of a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife ; and there I buried Leah. The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein...

...blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people : "bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, "which...

...gathered unto their people. " Bury me," said Jacob, when he gave his dying charge to his sons — " bury me with my fathers, 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...