Genesis 47:29

⁴⁹Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”

²Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

¹⁴The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

¹Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

¹⁵Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers; ¹⁶and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

²⁴Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” ²⁵Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

²⁷Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

⁵For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol,^[+] who shall give you thanks?

¹²When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

¹“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?