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Genesis 49:30

AbrahamCanaanEphronCanaanMachpelahMamre

28 These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

29 Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.

32 The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”

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BSB
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
KJV
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 possession of a buryingplace.
WEB
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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
ASV
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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.
DARBY
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre.
BLB
in the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before the face of Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burial place.
ÅB
i hulen på Makpela-marken, østenfor Mamre i Kana'ans land, den mark som Abraham kjøpte av hetitten Efron til eiendoms-gravsted.
OTB
hulen på marken Makpela, nær Mamre i Kanaan, som Abraham kjøpte sammen med marken fra hetitten Efron som et gravsted.
B1930
i hulen på Makpela-marken, østenfor Mamre i Kana'ans land, den mark som Abraham kjøpte av hetitten Efron til eiendoms-gravsted.

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  • Genesis 23:16–18

    Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

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  • Genesis 23:8–9

    “If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

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  • Genesis 23:20

    So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

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