And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave;

And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

Who were a source of grief unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in which you go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.