“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”