Acts 7:16

and they were brought back to Shechem, and placed in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor in Shechem.

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In The King James Version

And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

In Context

15Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

17"But as the time of the promise came close which God had made to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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Cross References

Genesis 33:9Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

Genesis 35:19Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

Genesis 50:12His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

Exodus 13:19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17

Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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