And the days of Israel drew near for him to die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If I have found favor before you, put your hand under my thigh, and you shall execute mercy and truth toward me, so as not to bury me in Egypt.

And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel bowed down, leaning on the top of his staff.

And Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers.

And he said to them, I am added to my people; you shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

in the double cave which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the cave which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a possession, for a tomb.

For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but you are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.

And Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did indeed taste a little honey, with the end of my staff that was in my hand; and behold, I am to die!

And they buried him in the tomb which he had dug for himself in the City of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled [it] with spices and [all] kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.

And what have you to do here, that you have hewn yourself a tomb, and made yourself a tomb on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?

and placed it in his new tomb which he had cut in the rock; and having rolled a large stone [against] the door of the tomb, he departed.

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them].

If a man beget a hundred [children], and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet [if] his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.

and they shall look up, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered, because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market.

[before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

Then another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

But Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."