⁵ ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb ^(A)that 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.’”

¹⁶ What have you to do here, and whom have you here, ^(A)that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you ^(B)who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

¹⁴ They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier ^(A)that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, ^(B)and they made a very great fire in his honor.

⁶⁰ and ^(A)laid it in his own new tomb, ^(B)which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled ^(C)a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.

²⁹ And ^(A)when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now ^(B)I have found favor in your sight, ^(C)put your hand under my thigh and ^(D)promise to deal kindly and truly with me. ^(E)Do not bury me in Egypt, ³⁰ but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and ^(F)bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.” ³¹ And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then ^(G)Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.^[a]

⁵⁹ To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ⁶⁰ And Jesus^[a] said to him, “Leave ^(A)the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and ^(B)proclaim the kingdom of God.”

²¹ Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ²² And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave ^(A)the dead to bury their own dead.”

⁷ and ^(A)the dust returns to the earth as it was, and ^(B)the spirit returns to God ^(C)who gave it.

⁵ they are afraid also of what is high, and ^(A)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,^[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his ^(B)eternal ^(C)home, and the ^(D)mourners go about the streets—