Objects
tomb
Tombs appear in Abraham's burial negotiations and when Jacob asks burial in his ancestral tomb; in Genesis 50 Joseph cites Jacob's oath to be buried in the tomb he dug in Canaan.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 23:6
Tags
2
Genesis 23, 47, 50Burial
Scripture references
- Genesis 23:6
bury your dead in the best of our tombs...
- Genesis 47:30
When I lie down with my ancestors, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb.' 'I shall do as you say,' he replied.
- Genesis 50:5
"My father put me under oath, saying: I am about to die. In the tomb which I dug for myself in Canaan, that is where you are to bury me. So may I have leave to go up and bury my father, and then come back?" '