The young man did not delay in doing what they asked<n id="1" /> because he wanted Jacob&#8217;s daughter Dinah<n id="2" /> badly. (Now he was more important<n id="3" /> than anyone in his father&#8217;s household.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre,<n id="1" /> to Kiriath Arba<n id="2" /> (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (who discovered the hot springs<n id="1" /> in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon).p>

All his sons and daughters stood by<n id="1" /> him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will go to the grave mourning my son.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Joseph&#8217;s<n id="3" /> father wept for him.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had.<n id="1" /> When he came to Beer Sheba<n id="2" /> he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him,<n id="1" /> he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses,<n id="2" /> just as Pharaoh had commanded.

Joseph said to his father, &#8220;They are the<n id="1" /> sons God has given me in this place.&#8221; His father<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;Bring them to me so I may bless them.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Joseph said to his father, &#8220;Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.&#8221;p>

Joseph instructed the physicians in his service<n id="1" /> to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh&#8217;s officials went with him &#8211; the senior courtiers<n id="1" /> of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,

all Joseph&#8217;s household, his brothers, and his father&#8217;s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The priest who is anointed and ordained to act as high priest in place of his father<n id="1" /> is to make atonement. He is to put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

<p class="bodytext">If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,<n id="1" />

&#8216;Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

Gideon son of Joash died at a very<n id="1" /> old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.p>

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan<n id="1" /> in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced<n id="2" /> that his father had decided to kill David.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father&#8217;s family<n id="1" /> learned about it, they went down there to him.

They took Asahel&#8217;s body and buried him in his father&#8217;s tomb at Bethlehem.<n id="1" /> Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof,<n id="1" /> and Absalom had sex with<n id="2" /> his father&#8217;s concubines in the sight of all Israel.p>