Jacob’s Burial: The Suspicion of the Brethren

"And when Jacob had made an end to commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." So reads the record of Jacob's behavior in the hour of his dying. He had done now commanding his sons. Commanded he had. The expression is signi­ficant as denoting that his words had carried with them the weight of that peculiar authority with which the discourses of the prophets of God were fraught. Jacob had revealed to his sons the mind of...