Study it in the app“He commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,”
He commandedוַיְצַוthemאוֹתָםand saidוַיֹּאמֶרto them,אֲלֵהֶם“Iאֲנִיam about to be gatheredנֶאֱסָףto my people;אֶל עַמִּיburyקִבְרוּmeאֹתִיwith my fathersאֶל אֲבֹתָיin the caveאֶל הַמְּעָרָהthatאֲשֶׁרis in the fieldבִּשְׂדֵהof Ephronעֶפְרוֹןthe Hittite,הַחִתִּי
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “yetsav” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsjoin ancestors
To die and be placed with one's own who have died before.
Where else “neesaf” appearskin
Relatives: "gathered to his people" at death.
Where else “ami” appearsbury
Bury.
Where else “kivru” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avota” appearscave
Cave.
Where else “meara” appearsfarmland
Land that is farmed.
Where else “sede” appearsEphron
Ephron, the Hittite who owned the field and the cave of Machpelah; also the name of places.
Where else “efron” appearsHittite
Hittite: a descendant of Heth, one of the peoples of Canaan.
Where else “chiti” appears28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 · This verse (above)
30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is facing Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.
1. What it says
What did Jacob say about Judah and Joseph in his blessings (vv. 8-12, 22-26)?
2. What it means
What does it show that Jacob gave each son a different blessing (v. 28)?
3. How I live it
How can you recognize what is distinct and unique in each person in your family?
