He imprisoned them all for three days.

When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.”

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.

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. He breathed his last and died; then he joined his ancestors.

Then Jacob said, “Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.”

“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”

Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. He died an old man who had lived a full life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

Then he instructed them, “I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”