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After seventeen years in Egypt, Yaakov takes an oath from Yosef before his death,

that he will bury him in the Holy Land.

Yaakov blesses Yosef’s sons Menashe and Ephraim as his guardians,

He fails to reveal the End of Days and dies on his deathbed.

Yosef fulfils his promise to his father before his death,

Yaakov is buried in the Holy Land, in Hebron, in the cave of Machpelah.

Yosef himself dies at the age of one hundred and ten, having given his brothers and sons a parting covenant:

To remember G-d’s promise to ‘raise up the Jews in the Land,’ no matter how bitter the portion.