26. The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers.
27. Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening.
28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing.
29. Then he instructed them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah—
32. the purchase of the field and the cave which was in it from the Hittites.”
33. When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people.