Génesis 49:29

29 Muerte y entierro de Jacob
Entonces Jacob les dio las siguientes instrucciones: «Yo moriré pronto y me uniré con mis antepasados. Entiérrenme junto con mi padre y mi abuelo en la cueva que está en el campo de Efrón el hitita.

Génesis 49:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 49:29

And he charged them, and said unto them
The same charge he had given to Joseph he here renews, and lays it upon his sons, who were everyone of them to go along with Joseph to bury him in Canaan:

I [am] to be gathered unto my people;
the people of God, the spirits of just men made perfect, the souls of all the saints who before this time had departed this life, and were in a state of happiness and bliss; called his people, because he and they were of the same mystical body the church, belonged to the same general assembly, and church of the firstborn; the company of God's elect, who were in the same covenant of grace, and partakers of the same blessings and promises of grace: this shows that the souls of men are immortal; that there is a future state after death, which is a state of happiness, and into which saints immediately enter as soon as they die, and where Jacob expected to be in a short time:

bury me with my fathers;
the other part of himself, his body, which should not be gathered to his people, as his soul would be, he orders to be interred with his fathers Abraham and Isaac:

in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite;
which is more particularly described in the following verse, being the place of his father's sepulchre.

Génesis 49:29 In-Context

27 »Benjamín es un lobo rapaz,
que devora a sus enemigos por la mañana
y reparte su botín por la tarde».

28 Estas son las doce tribus de Israel, y esto es lo que su padre dijo a sus hijos al despedirse de ellos. Los bendijo con un mensaje apropiado para cada uno.

29 Muerte y entierro de Jacob
Entonces Jacob les dio las siguientes instrucciones: «Yo moriré pronto y me uniré con mis antepasados. Entiérrenme junto con mi padre y mi abuelo en la cueva que está en el campo de Efrón el hitita.

30 Es la cueva del campo de Macpela, cerca de Mamre, en Canaán, la cual Abraham compró a Efrón el hitita como lugar de sepultura permanente.

31 Allí están enterrados Abraham y su esposa Sara; allí también están enterrados Isaac y su esposa Rebeca; y allí enterré a Lea.