share in the burial-place.8 "Indeed it did,® they argued, "for our father, just before he died, said (Gen. 1. 5), ( In my grave which I have bought for myself.* " Where are the title-deeds? demanded Esau. " In Egypt, was the answer. And immediately the swift-footed Naphthali started for the records. ("So light of foot was he," says the Book of Jasher, " that he could go upon the ears of corn without crushing them.")
Hushim, the son of Dan, being deaf, asked what was the cause of the commotion. On being told what it was, he snatched up a club and smote Esau so hard that his eyes dropped out and fell upon the feet of Jacob; at which Jacob opened his eyes and grimly smiled. This is that which is written (Ps. lviii. 10), "The righteous shall rejoice when he sees vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked."
Then Rebekah's prophecy came to pass (Gen. xxvii. 45), " Why shall I be deprived also of you both in one day? For although they did not both die on the same day, they were both buried on the same day.