Genesis 15:15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

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

New American Standard Bible
"As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

King James Bible
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

International Standard Version
Now as for you, you'll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age.

American Standard Version
But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

Cross References

Genesis 25:8
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 35:29
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and 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 lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial plot. And he said, I will do as you have said.

Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

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

Job 42:17
So Job died, being old and full of days.

Psalm 49:19
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:12-16 A deep sleep fell upon Abram; with this sleep a horror of great darkness fell upon him: a sudden change. The children of light do not always walk in the light. Several things were then foretold. 1. The suffering state of Abram's seed for a long time. They shall be strangers. The heirs of heaven are strangers on earth. They shall be servants; but Canaanites serve under a curse, the Hebrews under a blessing. They shall be suffers. Those that are blessed and beloved of God, are often sorely afflicted by wicked men. 2. The judgment of the enemies of Abram's seed. Though God may allow persecutors and oppressors to trample upon his people a great while, he will certainly reckon with them at last. 3. That great event, the deliverance of Abram's seed out of Egypt, is here foretold. 4. Their happy settlement in Canaan. They shall come hither again. The measure of sin fills gradually. Some people's measure of sin fills slowly. The knowledge of future events would seldom add to our comfort. In the most favoured families, and most happy lives, there are so many afflictions, that it is merciful in God to conceal what will befall us and ours.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9-21. Take me an heifer, &c.—On occasions of great importance, when two or more parties join in a compact, they either observe precisely the same rites as Abram did, or, where they do not, they invoke the lamp as their witness. According to these ideas, which have been from time immemorial engraven on the minds of Eastern people, the Lord Himself condescended to enter into covenant with Abram. The patriarch did not pass between the sacrifice and the reason was that in this transaction he was bound to nothing. He asked a sign, and God was pleased to give him a sign, by which, according to Eastern ideas, He bound Himself. In like manner God has entered into covenant with us; and in the glory of the only-begotten Son, who passed through between God and us, all who believe have, like Abram, a sign or pledge in the gift of the Spirit, whereby they may know that they shall inherit the heavenly Canaan.