Genesis 23:5
5The Hittites answered Abraham,Genesis 50:5-6
5‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb athat I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’” 6And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”Numbers 33:4
4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, bwhom the Lord had struck down among them. cOn their gods also the Lord executed judgments.Deuteronomy 21:23
23 dhis body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for ea hanged man is cursed by God. fYou shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.Job 5:26
26You shall come to your grave in gripe old age,like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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