...blessed scriptures contain several instances of the last words of God's children. Jacob exclaimed, ere he "gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost," " I have waited for thy salvation, О Lord." Joseph, before he expired, said, "I die, and God will...

...mind, a body in harmony with its parts, a consciousness of its dissolving to its mother earth, " he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, [or spirit,] and was gathered to his people." Was there pain or confusion ? judge ye. Did he say, I...

...Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah. And 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. 5. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years....

...therein, was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he N }gS OL ; 7 ^6 y/g D O " ] qS n 77 G K4 a& t WwݶE ES Jii-i people. CHAP. L. The mourning for Jacob AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon...

...work that thou gavest me to do." Having, therefore, given his simple directions for his funeral, " he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." How plain and unadorned a narrative ! "he yielded up the ghost" — how beautiful and instructive an...

...commanding his sons," and charged them to bury him with his fathers in the cave of Machpelah, " Israel gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." Jacob's body was embalmed after the Egyptian manner, and a mourning of seventy days made among the...

...therein, was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he hat lifted up their hand against my lord the king. 29 And the king said, Is the young man Absa CHAPTER L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph eetteth leave of Pharaon, to go to bury aim. 7 The funeral....

...them the great interests of truth and of religion, and having made an end of commanding his sons, he " gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered peacefully unto his people." — Gen. xlix. Let us then ask, more distinctly, what there is in a young...

...them the great interests of truth and of religion, and having made an end of commanding his sons, he " gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered peacefully unto his people." — Gen. xlix. Let us then ask, more distinctly, what there is in a young...

...same alluded to in the Holy Scriptures: ' And 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.'" The second mode of burying the body entire is evidently proved to be of a much later period, by the...