29And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)Here is, 1. Jacob’s removal, Gen. 35:21. He also, as his fathers, sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, and was not long in a place. Immediately after the story of Rachel’s death he is here called Israel ( Gen. 35:21 , 22 ), and not often so afterwards: the Jews say, “The historian does him this honour here because he bore that affliction with such admirable patience and submis…
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