KJV King James Version
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
WEB World English Bible
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
ASV American Standard Version
But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and thou—thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;
Surrounding context — Genesis 15
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
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Job 5:26Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.Genesis 25:7-9And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.2 Chronicles 34:28Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.Numbers 27:13And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.Daniel 12:13But go thou thy way till the end [be]: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.1 Chronicles 29:28And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.Judges 2:10And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.Job 42:17So Job died, [being] old and full of days.Acts 13:36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:Genesis 35:29And 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.Genesis 49:29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,1 Chronicles 23:1So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.Genesis 23:19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.Genesis 50:13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.Numbers 20:24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.Psalm 37:37Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the end of [that] man [is] peace.
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