Quotes about Burial
but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”
- Genesis 47:30
Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
- Genesis 48:7
Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
- Genesis 49:29
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- Genesis 49:30
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
- Genesis 49:31
Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
- Genesis 50:6
Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—
- Genesis 50:7
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- Genesis 50:13
After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.
- Genesis 50:14
So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
- Genesis 50:26
So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
- Numbers 11:34
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
- Numbers 20:1