Genesis 49:29-30

"And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto 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 of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burial place."

Having concluded the blessing, Jacob already having received from Joseph, a principal authority in Egypt, a solemn oath that he would be buried in Machpelah, in this passage charged his sons regarding his wishes. The detailed description of the burial place was given by Jacob evidently for the purpose of enlightening his sons concerning the exact amount of property that pertained to the family burial ground. His statement here that he would be "gathered to my people" suggests that some kind of conviction existed within him that the dead were nevertheless, in some sense, still his people. If it was merely an intuition on his part, it was true. God would later speak to Moses as the "God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob," the Saviour himself using this as a proof of immortality.