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RBT Translation:
My father has sevened me, to say, Behold, Myself is he-who-dies, in my burying-place which I have dug to-myself in the earth of Humbled, there you are burying me. And now, I am ascending, now, and I am burying אֶת-my father, and I am turning-back.`
LITV Translation:
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; you shall bury me there in the grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan. And now please let me go up and bury my father, and return.
ESV Translation:
‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.

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