²⁹ and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.

¹⁵ and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

³³ And Jacob finisheth commanding his sons, and gathereth up his feet unto the bed, and expireth, and is gathered unto his people.

³¹ (there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah);

⁵ Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

⁶ While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

⁴¹ And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, `The days of mourning `for' my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'

¹ And it cometh to pass that Isaac `is' aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calleth Esau his elder son, and saith unto him, `My son;' and he saith unto him, `Here `am' I.'

² And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have become aged, I have not known the day of my death;

¹⁷ And these `are' the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people;

⁷ And these `are' the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years;

⁸ and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

⁹ And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which `is' before Mamre --

¹⁹ And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which `is' Hebron), in the land of Canaan;

²⁰ and established are the field, and the cave which `is' in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth.

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'