All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah— the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.” When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Comment: So Jacob (Israel) dies and is embalmed and wept over. He leaves instructions for his embalmed body to one day be carried back and buried in the family tomb with his father and mother and grandparents. Even back then most tribal groups did things to transport people into the next world. Jesus rose from the dead proving that life does exist beyond death, and He tells us that we need to be prepared, and shows us the way!
Prayer: Show me the Way to be prepared for the long time after I die, O Risen Jesus.
As I read it! 