Genesis 49:31
They put Abraham and his wife Sarah in it and later they put Isaac and his wife Rebecca there too. And I buried Leah there.
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In The King James Version
In Context
32So put me too in the cave that Abraham bought.”
Cross References
Genesis 23:16Abraham agreed and counted the money that Ephron had said, in front of everyone. Then he put down 400 coins. He made the money exactly right so that it would be the full amount.
Genesis 25:10Abraham had bought the cave from the Hittite people and both Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there.
Genesis 50:13They put his body in the cave near Mamre. First of all the cave had belonged to Ephron the Hittite. Long ago Abraham had bought Ephron's land and the cave that was in it so that they could bury the bodies of his family in it when they died.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:29-33
Death of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 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, 30 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… Read the whole commentary →