Genesis 49:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

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The field and the cave that is in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham’s possession as a burying place.

Abraham rose up from beside his dead and said to the Hittites,

“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,