THE BLESSING OF JACOB. This poem had an independent origin, but if it
was incorporated in one of the main documents it would be in J. It is
not a mere collection of originally isolated utterances on the tribes,
but was from the first put in the lips of Jacob, though expansions and
alterations have,... [ Continue Reading ]
GENESIS 49:28 _ b_ - GENESIS 50:13. DEATH AND BURIAL OF JACOB.
Genesis 49:28 _b_ - GENESIS 49:33; GENESIS 50:12 F. are in the main
from P; Genesis 50:1 in the main from J. The dying charge requires no
comment. The body is embalmed simply because burial could not be
immediate; the motive for the Egyp... [ Continue Reading ]