10. As regards Jacob's burying place, when they carried him into Canaan, they did not go the straight way to the south of Canaan, but they went to Atad, which is beyond Jordan. Yet he was buried in Mamre, so that their carrying him to Shechem or Sychem has nothing extraordinary in it.
23. NOTE.—The third generation means three, not counting the point of departure, and as Jacob's sons' sons went down, there is nothing to fix the fourth generation necessarily within seven from Jacob inclusively.
The blessing of Jacob is clearly the scheme of God—that of Moses His dealings in the land as with a people there—a scheme connected with present conduct in the earlier part, and then His counsels.