Genesis 47:29
When the time drew near for him to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him: Place your hand under my thighs and make a solemn vow that you will not bury me in Egypt.
Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to the senior servant of his household who was in charge of all that he owned: Take a solemn oath.
Genesis 24:49
If you are going to deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, let me know, that I may turn to the right hand or the left.
Deuteronomy 31:14
Then Jehovah said to Moses: Behold, the time for you to die is near. Call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, that I may commission him. So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.
1 Kings 2:1
David was about to die. He called his son Solomon and gave him his last instructions:
Genesis 50:24-25
Before Joseph died, he told his brothers: I will not live much longer. God will take care of you. He will lead you out of Egypt to the land he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Genesis 47:9
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
2 Samuel 7:12
I will choose one of your sons to be king when you reach the end of your life and are buried in the tomb of your ancestors. I will make him a strong ruler.
2 Samuel 14:14
We each must die and disappear like water poured out on the ground. But God does not take our lives. Instead, he figures out ways of bringing us back when we run away.
Job 7:1
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come.
Job 30:23
Yes, I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 6:5
No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave?
Psalm 49:7
No one can ever redeem (buy back) his brother or pay God a ransom for his life.
Psalm 49:9
so they should live forever and never see the grave (pit) (destruction).
Psalm 89:48
Can man go on living and never see death? Who can set himself free from the power of the grave?
Acts 7:15-16
Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers.
Hebrews 9:27
It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 11:22
By faith Joseph, when his end was near, mentioned the departure of the children of Israel. Then he gave orders concerning his bones.