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Machpelah (#110026)
Machpelah
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From:
Boyd's Bible Dictionary: M
By:
James P. Boyd
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
Duration:
14sec
Genesis 23:17‑19; 25:9; 49:29‑32; 50:13
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(double). Abraham’s burial cave at Hebron (
Gen. 23:17-19; 25:9; 49:29-32; 50:13
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And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
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Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
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And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. (Genesis 23:17‑19)
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And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre; (Genesis 25:9)
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And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
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There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. (Genesis 49:29‑32)
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For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. (Genesis 50:13)
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