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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them ^(F1)when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one ^(F2)with the blessing appropriate to him.

Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am about to be ^(C1)gathered to my people; ^(C2)bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in ^(C3)the field of Ephron the Hittite,

in the ^(C1)cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a ^(F1)burial site.

"There they buried ^(C1)Abraham and his wife ^(C2)Sarah, there they buried ^(C3)Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah—

the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth."

When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and ^(C1)breathed his last, and was ^(C2)gathered to his people.