DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,
Your Question Papers for February (with the exception of a few from members of our class who live in such far-away places as Australia and New Zealand) have been received, and we are all ready for a Bible talk. It is pleasant to see how much painstaking and really good work has been put into nearly all the replies, and yet it has surprised Cousin Edith (your new friend) to find in how many different ways Question II., “How many people do we read of as buried in the cave of Machpelah?” has been answered. By some the number is stated as low as “three,” while several of our class have only named “four.” Some have been more careful. Here is an answer correct in all its details, copied from a very good paper sent by Florence V. N. O. —, Colchester: “Six: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah.”
“Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of Machpelah” (Gen. 23:1919And 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 23:19)); there his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried Abraham (ch. 25:9); “There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; there I (Jacob) buried Leah” ( ch. 49:31): and “his sons carried him (Jacob) into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah” (ch. 50:13).