Jacob answered, "My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings."

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."

He said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Then the LORD said to Moses, "You do not have much longer to live. Call Joshua and bring him to the Tent, so that I may give him his instructions." Moses and Joshua went to the Tent,

When you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will make one of your sons king and will keep his kingdom strong.

We will all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which can't be gathered again. Even God does not bring the dead back to life, but the king can at least find a way to bring a man back from exile.

When David was about to die, he called his son Solomon and gave him his last instructions:

Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labor,

If a man dies, can he come back to life? But I will wait for better times, wait till this time of trouble is ended.

I know you are taking me off to my death, to the fate in store for everyone.

In the world of the dead you are not remembered; no one can praise you there.

We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,

to keep us from the grave, to let us live forever.

Who can live and never die? How can we humans keep ourselves from the grave?

Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God.

He said to his oldest servant, who was in charge of all that he had, "Place your hand between my thighs and make a vow.

Now, if you intend to fulfill your responsibility toward my master and treat him fairly, please tell me; if not, say so, and I will decide what to do."

He said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land he solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Then Joseph asked his people to make a vow. "Promise me," he said, "that when God leads you to that land, you will take my body with you."

Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

Their bodies were taken to Shechem, where they were buried in the grave which Abraham had bought from the clan of Hamor for a sum of money.

It was faith that made Joseph, when he was about to die, speak of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, and leave instructions about what should be done with his body.