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GENESIS Heart of David Study Bible

Benyamin is a ravenous wolf.
In the morning he will devour the prey.
At evening he will divide the plunder.”

All these are the twelve tribes of Yisrael, and this is what their father spoke to them
and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing. He instructed them, and
said to them, “I am to be gathered to 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 Makpelah, which is
before Mamre, in the land of Kayinan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron
the Hittite as a burial place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they
buried Yitshak and Ribkah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: the field and the cave that is
therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.” When Ya`aqob made an end of
charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was
gathered to his people.
Yoseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. Yoseph commanded
his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Yisrael.
Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The
Mitsrites wept for him for seventy days.
When the days of weeping for him were past, Yoseph spoke to the house of
Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of
Pharaoh, saying, ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my
grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Kayinan.” Now therefore, please let me
go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”
Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
Yoseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of
Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Mitsrayim, all the house of
Yoseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their
herds, they left in the land of Goshen. There went up with him both chariots and horsemen.
It was a very great company. They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond
the Yarden, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned
for his father seven days. When the inhabitants of the land, the Kayinanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Mitsrites.”
Therefore its name was called Abel Mitsrayim, which is beyond the Yarden. His sons did
to him just as he commanded them, for his sons carried him into the land of Kayinan, and
buried him in the cave of the field of Makpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for
a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. Yoseph returned into
Mitsrayim - he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he
had buried his father.

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