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Benjamin shall ravin
as
a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall
divide the spoil.
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All these
are
the twelve tribes of Israel: and this
is it
that their father spake unto them, and
blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
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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,
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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 buryingplace.
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried
Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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The purchase of the field and of the cave
that
is
therein
was
from the children of Heth.
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding
his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his
people.
CHAPTER 50
And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2
And Joseph commanded
his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3
And forty
days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the
Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
4
And when the days of his mourning were
past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak,
I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore
let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
6
And Pharaoh said, Go up,
and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
7
And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the
elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8
And all the house of Joseph, and his
brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in
the land of Goshen.
9
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very
great company.
10
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which
is
beyond Jordan, and there
they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven
days.
11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of
Atad, they said, This
is
a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abel-mizraim, which
is
beyond Jordan.
12
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded
them:
13
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field
of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron
the Hittite, before Mamre.
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And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury
his father, after he had buried his father.
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