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49. 15

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.&emsp; 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,&emsp; 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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.&emsp; there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah:&emsp; the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.&emsp; And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.&emsp; And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.&emsp; And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.&emsp; And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days.

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,&emsp; 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.&emsp; And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according Rh