People’s Open Bible
Testament of Benjamin 12
Benjamin Dies Commands Burial Hebron
Open in the reader →1And after saying these things, he stretched out his feet and fell asleep in a good [and good] sleep.
2And his sons did as he had commanded them, and they carried his body and buried him in Hebron with his fathers. And when he had finished his words, he said, “I command you, my children, carry my bones up out of Egypt, and bury me in Hebron near my fathers.” And Benjamin died at one hundred and twenty-five years, in a good old age; and they placed him in a coffin.
3And in the ninety-first year after the departure of the sons of Israel from Egypt, they and their brothers brought up the bones of their fathers secretly in the war in Canaan, and buried them in Hebron beside the feet of their fathers.
4And they returned from the land of Canaan, and lived in Egypt until the day of their departure from the land of Egypt.
Composed from original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez manuscripts, rendered in multiple passes to stay as close to the originals as possible. About this project