I am to be gathered unto my people Though death separate us from our children, and our people in this world, it gathers us to our fathers and to our people in the other world. Perhaps Jacob useth this expression concerning death, as a reason why his sons should bury him in Canaan: For (he saith) I am to be gathered unto my people My soul must go to the spirits of just men made perfect, and therefore bury me with my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and their wives.
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Genesis 49:29
29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,