What the Bible says about

Machpelah

7 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.””
Genesis 23:9 BSB
“So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over”
Genesis 23:17-20 BSB
“His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.”
Genesis 25:9 BSB
“The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.”
Genesis 49:30 BSB
“There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.”
Genesis 49:31 BSB
“They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.”
Genesis 50:13 BSB
“Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.”
Acts 7:16 BSB
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