Motif
Ancestor's death and burial by sons
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A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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jewish christian
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Genesis Footnotes / Chapter 34 / Footnotes / Chapter 35; lines 2282-2344 confidence: high
Jacob comes to Isaac at Mamre/Kiriath Arba/Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners; Isaac dies at one hundred eighty years, is gathered to his people, and is buried by Esau and Jacob.
Isaac dies old and full of days and is buried by his sons Esau and Jacob.
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