Do not gather with the sins of my soul. These are the stoned and burned. And with people of blood, my life. These are the killed and strangled.

Another matter, these are the Egyptians. For Jacob says (Genesis 47:29) "Please do not bury me in Egypt." Rabbi Yochanan said we find in two places about the righteous who pray that they not be gathered with the wicked. Daniel said (Daniel 2:18) "to request compassion from the God of Heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions would not be destroyed."

David said, "Do not gather with the sins of my soul." Rabbi Chalfata in the name of Rabbi Ibu said (1 Samuel 25:38) "And it came to pass about ten days later, that the Lord struck Nabal, and he died." But isn't a plague only for three? It was taught: On one day, the death of anger; for two, death by panic; for three, death by plague.

And Rabbi Chalfata ben Shaul taught: for four, death by excision; for five, the suffocating death (see Masechet Shabbat); for six, the death mentioned in the Torah; for seven, the death of love; and from here onwards, the death of suffering. What did you see to say that Nabal died from the plague? But the scripture connected his death to the seven days of mourning for Samuel the Righteous so that he would not interfere with the mourning and die in a plague.

Rabbi Brechia in the name of Rabbi Samuel said, "And it came to pass about ten days." It does not say here "and it came to pass about ten days." Rather, it says "the days." These are the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, so that one may repent.

And it was recorded that the man touched the bones of Elisha and came back to life and stood on his feet. He returned to his house, but he only lived for an hour and died and was buried elsewhere, as it says "Do not gather with the sins of my soul." And who was the son of the Shunammite woman? As it says (2 Kings 4:18) "And it came to pass on a certain day that he came and went into his father."

And "And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth" (Genesis 7:10). Rav Hoshaya said that this teaches us that the Holy One, blessed be He, waited for seven days of mourning for Methuselah the righteous to repent, but he did not repent. This is based on the verse "Do not gather my soul with sinners".