Objects
burial-site
Place set aside for burial; in Genesis 50 Jacob is buried at Abraham's Machpelah burial site bought from Ephron.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 23:4
Tags
3
Genesis 23, 49-50BurialProperty
Scripture references
- Genesis 23:4
'I am a stranger resident among you. Give me some land of my own here as a burial site, so that I can take my dead off my hands for burial.'
- Genesis 23:20
and so the field and the cave in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham's possession as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 49:30
in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 50:13
His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.