Genesis 50:5
"My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again."
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- Isaiah 22:16
"What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 16:14
"And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 27:60
"And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 47:29
"And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:"
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 14:43
"Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 3:19
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 4:22
"But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 6:3
"If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he."
Read in chapter → - Luke 9:59
"And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 8:21
"And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father."
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