--- title: "The Death and Burial of Jacob" description: "Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me..." image: "" book: "Genesis" bookId: "GEN" testament: "old" startChapter: 49 startVerse: 29 endChapter: 50 endVerse: 14 coversChapters: [49,50] aiTitle: "The Death and Burial of Jacob" aiDescription: "Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me..." hasAiStory: true location: "Canaan" persons: ["Jacob","Ephron the Hittite","Abraham","Sarah","Isaac","Rebekah","Leah","Joseph","Pharaoh","Canaanites","Egyptians"] hashtags: ["covenant","faith","genealogy"] genre: "law" readingTime: 2 type: "adaptive" slug: "GEN/the-death-and-burial-of-jacob" canonicalId: "GEN.49.29-50.14" chronologicalOrder: 108 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "GEN/jacob-blesses-his-sons" nextSlug: "GEN/the-death-of-joseph" --- ### The Death of [Jacob](/persons/jacob) Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of [Ephron the Hittite](/persons/ephron%20the%20hittite). The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field [Abraham](/persons/abraham) purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. There Abraham and his wife [Sarah](/persons/sarah) are buried, there [Isaac](/persons/isaac) and his wife [Rebekah](/persons/rebekah) are buried, and there I buried [Leah](/persons/leah). The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.” When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people. ### Mourning and Burial for Jacob Then [Joseph](/persons/joseph) fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him. And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him, taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the [Egyptians](/persons/egyptians) mourned for him seventy days. When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to [Pharaoh](/persons/pharaoh)’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.” Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.” Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt— along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen. Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession. When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days. When the [Canaanites](/persons/canaanites) of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim. So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them. They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

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