Genesis 23:19

Catholic Public Domain Version

So then, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the double cave of the field that overlooked Mamre. This is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Cross References

Genesis 23:18

Abraham took it as a possession, in the sight of the sons of Heth and of everyone who was entering at the gate of his city.

Genesis 23:20

And the field was confirmed to Abraham, with the cave that was in it, as a memorial possession before the sons of Heth.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Genesis 37:14

"I am ready," he said to him, "Go, and see if everything is prospering with your brothers and the cattle, and report to me what is happening." So, having been sent from the valley of Hebron, he arrived at Shechem.

Genesis 47:30

But I shall sleep with my fathers, and you will carry me from this land and bury me in the sepulcher of my ancestors." And Joseph answered him, "I will do what you have ordered."

Genesis 50:13

And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial, opposite Mamre.

Genesis 50:25

he died, having completed one hundred and ten years of his life. And having been embalmed with aromatics, he was laid to rest in a coffin in Egypt.

Job 30:23

I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.