Verse 27
ISAAC’S DEATH AND BURIAL, Genesis 35:27-29.
27. Jacob came unto Isaac This appears to have been some twelve years previous to the death of Isaac, and therefore long enough to communicate often to his father his varied experiences, and to receive the counsels of the aged patriarch . Jacob was living at Hebron when Joseph was sold, (Genesis 37:14,) and the latter was at that time 17 years old . Genesis 37:2. Twenty-two years later Jacob went down into Egypt . He was then 130 years old; (Genesis 47:9;) consequently he was now 108, and Isaac 168, (Genesis 25:26;) and Isaac lived at least twelve years after this . So he must have lived to know of the loss of Joseph, and almost up to the beginning of the great famine which led Israel into Egypt .
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