Genesis 33:19

The leader for that country was named Hamor and one of his sons was named Sheckem. Jacob paid Hamor's sons 100 pieces of silver for the land he was camping on.

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In The King James Version

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

In Context

18And so, that is how Jacob and all his family left his uncle's country in Harran and travelled safely to a place called Su-coat. Then they moved to just outside the town of Shekem in Canaan. And it was there that he made his camp.

20Jacob made an altar out of stones with a flat top and called it, This altar belongs to God, the God of Israel.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:17And so, the cave and all the trees that were in the paddock belonged to Abraham and that was where he buried his wife Sarah. Mack-pelah was near a place called Mamre in the country of Canaan, and later Mamre was called Hebron. That is how Abraham got a cemetery for his family from the Hittite people.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 33:17-20

16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money. 20 And he erected there… Read the whole commentary →

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