Genesis 15:15
Good News Translation
You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.

New Revised Standard Version
As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

New American Bible
You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace; you will be buried at a ripe old age.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

And thou.

Genesis 25:8 And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

Numbers 20:24 Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.

Numbers 27:13 And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone:

Judges 2:10 And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel.

Job 5:26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Acts 13:36 For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

in peace.

2 Chronicles 34:28 For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be brought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They therefore reported to the king all that she had said.

Psalm 37:37 Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

Daniel 12:13 But go thou thy ways until the time appointed: and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot unto the end of the days.

Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

Hebrews 6:13-19 For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself, . . .

Hebrews 11:13-16 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

buried.

Genesis 23:4,19 I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead. . . .

Genesis 25:8,9 And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people. . . .

Genesis 35:29 And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 49:29,31 And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite, . . .

Genesis 50:13 And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Jeremiah 8:1,2 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. . . .

good.

Genesis 25:7,8 And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years. . . .

1 Chronicles 23:1 David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:28 And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

Job 5:26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Job 42:17 and he died an old man, and full of days.

Context
God Confirms His Promise
14But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance. 15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.16But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:8
And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 35:29
And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 47:30
But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.

Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them,

1 Chronicles 29:28
And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

Job 42:17
and he died an old man, and full of days.

Psalm 49:19
He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

Genesis 15:14
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