BRAGADAYJAH 160

And so Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, having gathered his twelve children together, and having blessed them according to the blessing and the foresight and knowledge and understanding which were in his heart, gave them the final charge as follows: “I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite; the very cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession as a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah. The purchase of the field and of the cave that is in it was from the children of Heth.” So Jacob laid out and recited a good root of title to the bury spot, so that his sons may know that the place belonged to the family by right of purchase and long possession. And having made an end of instructing his sons, he hauled himself upon his bed, stretched himself out, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his fathers. As his father breathed his last, Joseph fell upon his face and wept and kissed his father. Then he commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father and so the physicians embalmed Israel. It took forty days for the embalming process to be completed; and when it was over, all Egypt mourned Israel for a further seventy days.