You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.

Abraham died at the ripe old age of 175.

(SEE 25:7)

Ishmael was 137 years old when he died.

Isaac was now old and had become blind. He sent for his older son Esau and said to him, "Son!" "Yes," he answered.

Isaac said, "You see that I am old and may die soon.

When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he lay back down and died.

Like wheat that ripens till harvest time, you will live to a ripe old age.

You will be afraid of high places, and walking will be dangerous. Your hair will turn white; you will hardly be able to drag yourself along, and all desire will be gone. We are going to our final resting place, and then there will be mourning in the streets.

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.

Then Abraham buried his wife Sarah in that cave in the land of Canaan.

So the field which had belonged to the Hittites, and the cave in it, became the property of Abraham for a burial ground.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in Machpelah Cave, in the field east of Mamre that had belonged to Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, "The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob."

That is where they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; that is where they buried Isaac and his wife Rebecca; and that is where I buried Leah.