Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- KJV And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- BSB Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- NKJV So Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- NLT Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
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Isaac dies, old and full of days, and Esau and Jacob together bury him.
Overview
Isaac's peaceful death 'gathered to his people' reflects the biblical hope beyond the grave and a life completed in covenant blessing. Notably, Esau and Jacob unite to bury their father, showing the reconciliation between the brothers now bearing fruit. The patriarch's passing transfers the covenant promise fully to Jacob and his sons.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 15:15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
- Gen 49:33When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
- Gen 49:31There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
- Gen 25:7–9These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
- Gen 27:41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
- Job 5:26You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Gen 25:17These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
- Gen 23:19–20After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 27:1–2When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”
- Eccl 12:5–7yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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