Genesis 49:32

That field and the cave in it were bought from the Heth people-group; so that is where I want you to bury me.”

Translation for Translators

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

31That is where they buried him and his wife Sarah. That is where they buried my father Isaac and his wife Rebekah. And that is where I buried my wife Leah.

33When Jacob finished giving those instructions to his sons, he lay down on his bed again. Then he died [IDM].

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Cross References

Genesis 23:17So Ephron’s field in the Machpelah area, near Mamre, and the cave in the field, and all the trees that were in the field inside the boundaries of the land, became Abraham’s possession.

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 →

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