Genesis 15:15

15:15 But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Genesis 25:8

25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.

Joshua 24:29-30

An Era Ends

24:29 After all this Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten. 24:30 They buried him in his allotted territory in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Job 5:26

5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age,

As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

Job 42:17

42:17 And so Job died, old and full of days.


tn The vav with the pronoun before the verb calls special attention to the subject in contrast to the preceding subject.

sn You will go to your ancestors. This is a euphemistic expression for death.

tn Heb “in a good old age.”

tn Heb “old and full.”

tn Heb “And he was gathered to his people.” In the ancient Israelite view he joined his deceased ancestors in Sheol, the land of the dead.

tn Heb “after these things.”

tn Heb “in the territory of his inheritance.”

tn The word translated “in a full age” has been given an array of meanings: “health; integrity”; “like a new blade of corn”; “in your strength [or vigor].” The numerical value of the letters in the word בְכֶלָח (bÿkhelakh, “in old age”) was 2, 20, 30, and 8, or 60. This led some of the commentators to say that at 60 one would enter the ripe old age (E. Dhorme, Job, 73).