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Lie with One’s Fathers (To)

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To be buried in one’s native place. “Reposer avec ses pères.”

“I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt.”—Genesis xlvii. 30.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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