Acts 7:16

Easy To Read Version

Later their bodies were moved to Shechem. They were put in a grave there. (It was the same grave that Abraham had bought in Shechem from the sons of Hamor. He paid them with silver.)

Cross References

Genesis 23:16

Abraham understood that Ephron was telling him the price of the land. [130] So Abraham paid him for the land. Abraham weighed 10 pounds [131] of silver for Ephron and gave it to the merchant. [132]

Genesis 23:4

“I am only a traveler staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so I can bury my wife.”

Genesis 35:19

Rachel was buried on the road to Ephrath. (Ephrath is Bethlehem.)

Genesis 47:30

Bury me in the place where my ancestors [253] are buried. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in our family grave.”

Genesis 50:12

So Jacob’s sons did what their father told them.

Genesis 50:13

They carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah. This was the cave near Mamre in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite. Abraham bought that cave to use as a burial place.

Exodus 13:19

Moses carried the bones of Joseph with him. Before Joseph died, he made the sons of Israel promise to do this for him. Joseph said, “When God saves you, remember to carry my bones with you out of Egypt.”

Joshua 24:32

When the people of Israel left Egypt, they carried the bones from the body of Joseph with them. So the people buried the bones of Joseph at Shechem. They buried the bones on the land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of the man named Shechem. Jacob had bought that land for 100 pieces of pure silver. This land belonged to Joseph’s children.