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The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hethite as burial property.
The field with its cave passed from the Hethites to Abraham as burial property.
When Abraham got up from beside his dead wife, he spoke to the Hethites:
‘I am a foreigner residing among you. Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’ ,
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hethite.