Genesis 23 Cross References - NSB

¹ Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. ² Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death. ³ Abraham left the side of his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. ⁴ He said: »I am a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb that I can bury my dead wife.« ⁵ The Hittites answered Abraham: ⁶ »Listen to us, my lord. You are a mighty leader among us. Bury your dead in one of our best tombs. Not one of us will withhold from you his tomb for burying your dead.« ⁷ Abraham got up and bowed to the people of that region, the Hittites. ⁸ He said: »If you are willing to let me bury my wife here, please ask Ephron son of Zohar ⁹ to sell me Machpelah Cave. It is near the edge of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for its full price here in your presence. Then I can own it as a burial ground.« ¹⁰ Ephron was sitting with the other Hittites at the meeting place at the city gate. He answered in the hearing of everyone there: ¹¹ »Hear me my lord, I give you the field, including the cave. It is yours. With my own people as witnesses, I freely give it to you as a burial place for your dead.« ¹² Once again, Abraham bowed down. ¹³ He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land. He said: »If you will only please listen to me. I will give the price of the field. Accept it from me that I may bury my dead there.« ¹⁴ Ephron answered Abraham: ¹⁵ »My lord, listen to me. It is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead.« ¹⁶ Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard. ¹⁷ Ephron’s field at Machpelah, east of Mamre, was sold to Abraham. ¹⁸ His property included the field with the cave in it as well as all the trees inside the boundaries of the field. The Hittites together with all who had entered the city gate were the official witnesses for the agreement. ¹⁹ Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (Hebron), in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ The Hittites sold the field and its cave to Abraham as his property to be used as a tomb.

¹⁷ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: »Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?«

¹⁸ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.

¹⁹ Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

⁴¹ So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: »The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.«

¹⁰ They mourned loudly for a long time at the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

²² When they went to the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

²⁹ The entire congregation learned that Aaron had died. They all mourned for him for thirty days.

⁸ So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

³⁹ He took it, and the king and all the cities there. They killed them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all people there. He left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

¹⁴ Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day, because that he wholly followed Jehovah the God of Israel. ¹⁵ Hebron was previously named Kirjath-arba. Arba was a great man among the Anakims. The land (and its people) had rest from war.

⁷ So, on the west side of the Jordan River they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

¹⁰ Judah went against the Canaanites that lived in Hebron (previously called Kirjath-arba) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

³¹ »As long as Jesse’s son lives on earth, neither you nor your right to be king is secure. Send some men to bring him to me. He is a dead man!«

³ After Samuel died all the Israelites mourned for him. They buried him in his hometown of Ramah. Saul forced all the fortunetellers and mediums to leave Israel.

¹² They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.

¹⁷ Then David chanted with a lament (dirge) (requiem) over Saul and Jonathan his son.

¹¹ In Hebron David was king over the tribe of Judah for seven years and six months.

³ All the elders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them. They anointed him, and he became king of Israel.

⁵ In Hebron he ruled Judah for seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he ruled for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

⁵⁷ So the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), and Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,

²⁵ Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.

¹⁰ »Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land.

¹⁸ Therefore Jehovah tells us about Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: »They will not cry for him: ‘Alas, my brother!’ And, ‘Alas, sister!’ They will not mourn him: ‘Alas for the master!’ And, »Alas for his splendor!«

¹⁶ »Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow. You will, however, not mourn and you will not weep, and your tears will not come. ¹⁷ »Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet. Do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men.« ¹⁸ »So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

³¹ The Jews were with her in the house, consoling her. They saw Mary get up quickly and leave. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³⁵ Jesus wept.

² Devout men buried Stephen and mourned him greatly.

¹⁵ Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

⁵ The Hittites answered Abraham:

⁷ Abraham got up and bowed to the people of that region, the Hittites.

¹⁰ This was the field Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.

⁴⁶ Rebekah said to Isaac: »I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.«

³⁰ »Abraham bought the cave from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place. It is near the field of Machpelah. It is also near the town of Mamre in Canaan.

⁶ David asked Ahimelech the Hittite, and Abishai the brother of Joab: »Who will go to Saul’s camp with me?« »I will,« Abishai answered.

³⁹ and Uriah the Hittite, thirty-seven in all.

¹⁹ »You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.«

⁸ »The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest (alien) (foreigner) (stranger), I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God.«

⁹ Jacob answered: »My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.«

¹³ They carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre. He was buried in the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

²³ »‘No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.

¹⁵ »You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

²³ »Yes, I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

¹² »Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

¹² They were a few men in number, very few, and strangers in it. ¹³ They went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁹ I am a stranger in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.

³ A man can have a hundred children and live many years. If he does not enjoy prosperity and have a decent burial, a stillborn child is better off then he.

⁵ Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.

⁷ Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.

⁵ »He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. Yet he promised that he would give it to him and his seed after him for a possession. This promise was made before he had a child.

⁹ By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar. They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴ Those who say such things declare that they are seeking a country of their own. ¹⁵ If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they came, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Because of this, God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city for them!

¹¹ Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

¹⁴ Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive. Abram led his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, in pursuit as far as Dan.

¹² Therefore Sarah laughed within herself. She said to herself: »After I have grown old, shall I have a baby? My lord is old also.«

²² Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do.

¹⁸ »Drink, my lord,« she said. She quickly lowered her jar to her hand and gave him a drink.

³⁵ »Jehovah has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.

³⁵ Rachel said to her father: »Do not be angry, Father, but I cannot get up to greet you. I am having my period.« So even though Laban had made a thorough search, he did not find the idols.

⁴ He informed them to say: »Your obedient servant, Jacob, reports to my master Esau that I have been staying with Laban and that I have delayed my return until now. ⁵ »I own cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and slaves. I am sending you word in the hope of gaining your favor.«

¹⁸ »Say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. This is a gift sent to you. Jacob is directly behind us.’«

¹⁰ »No!« they answered. »We have come as your slaves, to buy food.

⁵ »‘Is this the cup that my master drinks from and that he uses for telling the future? What you have done is evil!’«

⁸ »You know that we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found in the top of our sacks. Why should we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

²² Aaron said, »Do not be angry with me. You know the people as well as I do. They are determined to do evil.

¹³ Ruth answered: »You are very kind to me, sir. You make me feel better by speaking gently to me, even though I do not even have the standing of one of your servants.«

¹⁴ This is what Jehovah says: »The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans will come over to you and will be yours. They will walk behind you. They will come to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you. They will say: ‘God is with you and there is no other. There is no other god!’

¹ Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him. ² Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

² He looked up and noticed three men coming toward him. He ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed to the ground.

¹ That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he got up to greet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed low to the ground.

²⁴ A man with friends must be friendly! A friend sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁷ Return evil for evil to no man. Provide honest things in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ When it is possible, be peaceable with all men.

¹⁴ Pursue peace and holiness with all people, for no man will see the Lord without it.

⁸ Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.

⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre.

¹⁷ He said: »Will you go to Solomon the king for he will not say ‘No’ to you. And make my request that he give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife?«

³ When he heard about him he contacted Jesus through the Jewish elders. He asked him to come and save his servant. ⁴ They came to Jesus and earnestly pleaded with him saying: »He is worthy and you should do this for him.

²⁶ Such a high priest as this was suitable for us. He is holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and higher than the heavens.

¹ My little children, I write you these things that you may not sin. If any man sin, we have an Advocate (intercessor) (comforter) (helper) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous! ² He is the propitiation (Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation) for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

¹⁷ Return evil for evil to no man. Provide honest things in the sight of all men.

⁸ Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law.

¹⁸ His property included the field with the cave in it as well as all the trees inside the boundaries of the field. The Hittites together with all who had entered the city gate were the official witnesses for the agreement.

¹⁰ The servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and then set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand. He arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

²⁰ Hamor and his son Shechem went to their city gate to speak to the men of their city. They said:

²⁴ All the citizens of the city agreed with what Hamor and Shechem proposed. Then all the males were circumcised.

¹ Boaz went to the public place in the town and sat down. When the kinsman-redeemer came along, the one he had mentioned, Boaz said: »Come here, and sit down.« He came and was seated. ² Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said: »Be seated here. And they took their seats.« ³ Then Boaz said to the close relative: »Naomi has come back from the country of Moab. She is offering for a price that bit of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech. ⁴ »I am giving you a chance to take it with the approval of those seated here, the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relative to do, then do it. If you will not do it, say so to me now. There is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you, myself.« And he said: »I will do it.«

⁷ »When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,

⁶ He will be a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who repel the attack at the gate.

¹ Jesus entered a boat and crossed over to his own city (Capernaum), on the other side of the lake.

³ So every one went to his hometown to register. ⁴ Joseph came from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea to be counted and taxed. He went to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

⁶ »Listen to us, my lord. You are a mighty leader among us. Bury your dead in one of our best tombs. Not one of us will withhold from you his tomb for burying your dead.«

³⁰ »Those accused of murder may be found guilty and put to death only on the evidence of two or more witnesses. The evidence of one witness is not sufficient to support an accusation of murder.

⁶ »On the evidence and testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. He shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

¹⁵ »One witness is not enough to convict someone of a crime, offense, or sin he may have committed. Cases must be settled based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

¹ Boaz went to the public place in the town and sat down. When the kinsman-redeemer came along, the one he had mentioned, Boaz said: »Come here, and sit down.« He came and was seated.

⁴ »I am giving you a chance to take it with the approval of those seated here, the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relative to do, then do it. If you will not do it, say so to me now. There is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you, myself.« And he said: »I will do it.«

⁹ Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the others there: »You are all witnesses today that I have bought from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech and to his sons Chilion and Mahlon.

¹¹ The leaders and the others said: »Yes, we are witnesses. May Jehovah make your wife become like Rachel and Leah, who bore many children to Jacob. May you become rich in the clan of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

²⁰ Araunah saw David and his soldiers coming toward him. He went over to David and bowed down low, ²¹ and said: »My lord the king! Why have you come to see me?« David answered: »I came to buy your threshing place. I have to build Jehovah an altar here, so this disease will stop killing the people.« ²² Araunah said: »Take what you want and offer your sacrifice. Here are some cattle for the sacrifice. You can use the threshing-boards and the wooden yokes for the fire.« ²³ Araunah gave this to the king and said: »May Jehovah your God accept you.« ²⁴ »No!« The king said to Araunah. »I must buy it from you at a fair price. I will not offer Jehovah my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.« So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for one and one quarter pounds of silver.

²² David said to him: »Sell me your threshing place so that I can build an altar to Jehovah, to stop the epidemic. I will give you the full price.« ²³ »Take it, Your Majesty,« Araunah said, »and do whatever you wish. Here are these bulls to burn as an offering on the altar. Here are the threshing boards to use as fuel and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you.« ²⁴ The king answered: »No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to Jehovah something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing.«

⁸ But the noble man devises noble plans. He stands firm for what is honorable.

⁷ ‘Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you. He says: »Buy for yourself my field at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’« ⁸ »Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah and said to me: ‘Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin. You have the right of possession and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ »Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah. ⁹ »I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son. I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver. ¹⁰ »I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹ »I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. ¹² »I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

²⁴ »The nobleman said: Take away the pound he was given and give it to him that has the ten pounds.

²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom: »I have sworn to Jehovah, God Most High, maker of heaven and earth: ²³ »I will take nothing. Not a thread or a sandal strap. You will not be able to say: 'I have made Abram rich.’

²⁴ »No!« The king said to Araunah. »I must buy it from you at a fair price. I will not offer Jehovah my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.« So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for one and one quarter pounds of silver.

³⁵ »In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.«

⁵ Let your gentleness (mildness) (moderation) be known to all men for the Lord is near. ⁶ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ⁷ The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

⁵ Behave with wisdom toward those who are outside, making the most of the time.

⁵ You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: »I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.«

¹³ »Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.

¹⁵ »The rich man is not to pay more. The poor man is not to pay less, when they pay this amount for their lives.

¹² »‘One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.’

¹⁵ »My lord, listen to me. It is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead.«

²¹ »When we stopped for the night, we each found in our grain sacks the exact amount we had paid. We have brought that money back.

²⁵ I gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God that the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given: ²⁶ Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold, ²⁷ And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold. ²⁸ I said to them: »You are holy to Jehovah and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are an offering freely given to Jehovah, the God of your fathers. ²⁹ »Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of Jehovah.« ³⁰ So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

¹⁵ »Gold will not buy it; neither will any amount of silver.

⁹ »I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son. I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.

¹² I said to them, »If it is good in your sight give me my wages, if not forget it.« So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

¹² »Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

⁶ Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified.

²⁰ The Hittites sold the field and its cave to Abraham as his property to be used as a tomb.

²⁹ Jacob told his sons: »Soon I will die. I want you to bury me in Machpelah Cave. ³⁰ »Abraham bought the cave from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place. It is near the field of Machpelah. It is also near the town of Mamre in Canaan. ³¹ »Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there. Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried there. I also buried Leah there. ³² »The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.«

⁷ It was the custom for the seller to take off his sandal and give to the buyer to settle a sale or exchange of property. By doing this, Israelites showed that the matter was settled. ⁸ So when the man said to Boaz: »You buy it,« he took off his sandal and gave it to Boaz. ⁹ Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the others there: »You are all witnesses today that I have bought from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech and to his sons Chilion and Mahlon. ¹⁰ »In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man’s family, and his family line will continue among his people in his hometown. Today you are witnesses to this.«

⁵ All goes well for the person who is generous and lends willingly. He earns an honest living.

⁷ ‘Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you. He says: »Buy for yourself my field at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’« ⁸ »Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah and said to me: ‘Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin. You have the right of possession and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ »Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah. ⁹ »I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son. I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver. ¹⁰ »I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹ »I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. ¹² »I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard. ¹³ »I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying: ¹⁴ ‘Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: »Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may be preserved a long time.«

¹⁶ »I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

¹⁶ »Their bodies were brought to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.

¹⁵ Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise.

¹² »I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre. ¹⁰ This was the field Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. Abraham and Sarah his wife were buried there.

²⁷ Jacob came home to his father Isaac, to Mamre’s city, Kiriath-arba (Hebron). Abraham and Isaac had lived there for a while. ²⁸ Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old. ²⁹ Isaac took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death at a very old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

³⁰ »I want to be buried where my fathers are. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.« Joseph answered: »I will do as you say.«

²⁵ »Promise me that you will take my body with you when God leads you to that land.«

⁵ »When my father was about to die, he made me promise him that I would bury him in the tomb that he had prepared in the land of Canaan. Please, let me go and bury my father. Then I will come back.«

²⁴ Before Joseph died, he told his brothers: »I will not live much longer. God will take care of you. He will lead you out of Egypt to the land he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ²⁵ »Promise me that you will take my body with you when God leads you to that land.«

¹⁸ So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers. He was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place.