Genesis 3:19 In 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 25:9-
10 And his sons
Isaac and Ishmael buried him
in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [
is] before Mamre; ...
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth:
there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis 35:27-
29 And
Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto
Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [
is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. ... 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.
Genesis 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
Genesis 49:29-
32 And 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, ... The purchase of the field and of the cave that [
is] therein [
was] from the children of Heth.
Genesis 50:13 For 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.
Genesis 50:25 And Joseph
took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you,
and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Job 30:23 For I know [
that] thou wilt bring me [
to] death, and [
to]
the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If
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.
Ecclesiastes 12:5 Also [
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:
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the
dust return to the earth as it was: and
the spirit shall return unto
God who gave it.