Genesis 49:32
Remember that money was paid to the Hittite people for that paddock and the cave and so that cemetery belongs to us.”
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
In Context
33When Jacob finished talking he lay back down on his bed and died.
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 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 →