KJV King James Version
And 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.
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Genesis 35:29
And 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
WEB World English Bible
Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
ASV American Standard Version
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.
Surrounding context — Genesis 35
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
29 And 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.
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וַיִּגְוַ֨עH1478 · ga.vato dieיִצְחָ֤קH3327 · yits.chaqIsaacוַיָּ֙מָת֙H4191 · mutto dieוַיֵּאָ֣סֶףH622 · a.saphto gatherאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)עַמָּ֔יוH5971 · ampeopleזָקֵ֖ןH2205 · za.qenold: elderוּשְׂבַ֣עH7649 · sa.ve.asatedיָמִ֑יםH3117 · yomdayוַיִּקְבְּר֣וּH6912 · qa.varto buryאֹת֔וֹH853 · et[Obj.]עֵשָׂ֥וH6215 · e.savEsauוְיַעֲקֹ֖בH3290 · ya.a.qovJacobבָּנָֽיו׃ פH1121 · benson: child
Cross-references
Genesis 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.Genesis 49:33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.Genesis 49:31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.Genesis 25:7-9And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.Genesis 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.Job 5:26Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.Genesis 25:17And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.Genesis 23:19-20And 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 27:1-2And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, [here am] I.Ecclesiastes 12:5-7Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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