Acts 7:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ and were carried to Shechem and put in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And their bodies [Jacob's and Joseph's] were taken back to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of [silver] money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. [Gen. 50:13; Josh. 24:32.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had purchased for a certain sum of money from Hamor’s children, who lived in Shechem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And they crossed over into Shechem, and they were placed in the sepulcher which Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the son of Shechem.

Acts 7:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 23:16

Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, the price that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, according to the standard commercial measure.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me property for a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 35:19

Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

Genesis 47:30

but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

Genesis 50:12

So his sons did with him just as he had commanded them.

Genesis 50:13

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

Exodus 13:19

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the Israelites solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely attend to you, and you shall carry my bones away from here with you.”

Joshua 24:32

They buried the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought out of Egypt, in Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the descendants of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.