Acts 7:16

The Passion Translation

Their bones were later carried back to the promised land and buried in Shechem, in the tomb Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor.

Cross References

Genesis 23:16

So Abraham agreed to the amount, weighed out the four hundred silver shekels according to the merchant’s standard of weight, and in the presence of the Hittites he gave the money to Ephron.

Genesis 23:4

“I live as an alien and stranger among you. Sell me some of your property so I can use it as a burial site for my wife.”

Genesis 35:19

Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath (now Bethlehem).

Genesis 47:30

but when I go to rest with my fathers, I want you to carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.

Genesis 50:12

So Jacob’s sons did as they were instructed

Genesis 50:13

and carried his body to the land of Canaan. They buried him there in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, where Abraham had purchased a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

Joshua 24:32

They buried Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father. So the land became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.