“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.”
When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people. The death of Jacob — drawing up his feet, breathing his last, gathered to his people — is the death of the last patriarch, the third generation of the covenant promise. The application: the gathered to his people that describes every patriarchal death is the covenant community of the dead — Abraham, Isaac, and now Jacob, together in the place where the covenant began.
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